Future Crafting and conversational hypnosis are obsolete.

After all, if a person wants clarity on their goals, a plan to fulfil them and the drive to go after them, they can just talk to an LLM chatbot. I’m sure Gemini and Claude have a lot to offer people.

To prove it, I loaded a fresh instance of ChatGPT. I told it I want to become a celebrity chef over the next 15 years and wanted a detailed plan.

And the codeghost – the disembodied spirit living in silicon and servers – gave me the perfect response, better than any human could. I’ll summarise it here:

“That’s an awesome goal!”

Is it? The codeghost doesn’t know anything about me. I might be four years old. Or 87. I might have no hands or struggle in hot, noisy environments. It doesn’t know if I hate publicity, promoting myself and being the centre of attention.

I might despite celebrityhood. Who knows, I might even hate cooking. Maybe I just love the idea because I’ve seen folks enjoying cooking competition shows.

The silicon sycophant is cheering me on here, full of enthusiasm, never once doubting me or challenging me. That’s not its role.

Meanwhile, some trained in Future Crafting would check if this is something I actually want… and if there’s something else that’s an even better fit. Something I haven’t thought about that’ll scratch that itch even better. It’s built into the process.

“Years 1-3: Develop the Foundational Skills”

Solid general advice, but I specifically asked for a plan for me. I could already have these skills developed. It’s telling me how to reach my goal without knowing where I’m coming from.

Yeah, yeah, I know, this is sloppy prompt design on my end. For best results, I should have told ChatGPT where I currently am on my culinary journey.

(Funny how you noticed how bad my question to the codeghost was, but the codeghost didn’t. Hmm…)

“Year 4-6: Gain Experience & Recognition”

Three years to work under a top chef and build a social media presence. Got it.

But I might be a single father to six children. Could that change this plan?

Or what if my third cooking video goes mega viral because I’m a prodigy and this phase takes me about a month? Could that change this plan?

“Year 7-9: Build Your Culinary Portfolio”

Start a business, write a cookbook. Okay, I can do that. Except in some of my hypotheticals I’m 11 years old or 94 years old. Hmm…

“Year 10-12: Expand and Solidify Your Brand”

Few folks know how to do this well enough to become a celebrity. It’s a major topic in business school. This is all starting to feel overwhelming and impossible. Before, I was excited. Now, my dreams seem impossibly out of sight.

(It’s lucky this isn’t a real dream of mine, otherwise how sad I would be…)

“Year 13-15: Cement Your Status as a Celebrity Chef”

That’s even harder than the last step.

Alright, enough goofing around.

ChatGPT gave a decent answer to the question I asked, but it’s a terrible plan. I’m no clearer on this goal except for the bad parts. At the start, I was feeling some fake enthusiasm for this goal, but that’s much harder to access now.

And – and this is the big one – I feel disconnected from it. I asked it one question and the codeghost told me how I should go about this. Yeah, it’s smart to listen to the experts. If someone has achieved your goal before, do what they did.

But not blindly. You must adapt it to your purposes. You must construct your plan to fit your life, otherwise it won’t. And it will always seem imposed, not yours.

Hmm…

Maybe Future Crafting is still relevant.

Maybe wise humans are better than insane, disembodied sycophants.

After all, a human trained in Future Crafting will:

• Explore the goal with you, just in case there’s something you want even more than what you think,
• Help you (you! not someone else!) create an adaptable, flexible plan that is inspiring and manageable,
• Give you the mental qualities you need – like creativity, resilience and discipline – to go after your goal as simply as breathing.

I rule this one in favour of the conversational hypnotists.

And if this is something you’d not only like to experience, but be able to do for others…

… then register here and learn how:

Jesus comes into the world and changes it forever.

He performs miracles – feeding the hungry, healing the sick, raising the dead.

And He teaches.

He teaches a lot.

The stories He tells are like miracles in their own way, each feeding, healing and saving. And in a way, the parables are better. Each miracle saved, at most, thousands of people before Him, yet each parable has saved millions across history and cultures.

I sometimes wonder if the point of the miracles were to establish His credibility, so we’d listen when He speaks.

Anyway, there’s a point to this.

Jesus says that we can do what He does. The clearest language for this might be in Matthew 21 – that mountains will move if you tell them to, with enough faith.

The obvious interpretation is that you, too, can feed hordes with scraps and heal the unhealable.

But maybe you, too, can tell stories that save millions.

I won’t promote my Conversational Hypnosis & Future Crafting workshop too hard here. It’s Christmas Eve. Today’s a day for thinking about stories and miracles.

But I will promote it a little bit by telling you to follow this link:

Scrooge, famously, was visited by three ghosts on Christmas.

One showed him his past – the lost joy of his youth.

Another showed him the life his choices had created, for him and others.

Disturbing stuff.

But it’s the third ghost and its vision that blows his mind.

The scary thing about Scrooge is he’s not some moustache-twirling villain. When you learn his story, he makes sense. He’s human. You’re probably not as bad as he is, but you could be.

Terrifying stuff.

Even scarier:

You don’t have to be as selfish and wicked as Scrooge is to be on a dark path.

Honestly assess your life. If things continue as they are, right now, will you find yourself in a good place?

“No, but I’m working on changing that?”

Are you working on the right things?

And are you working hard enough?

Because you’re not likely to receive supernatural intervention here. If you need to make a change, you’ll need to make it.

But, well, you don’t have to do it all on your own.

Your Christmas gift to yourself and everyone around you can be better futures. If you register for Conversational Hypnosis & Future Crafting, you’ll learn how to sort the great plans from the doomed ones. How to find what it is you really want. And, most importantly, how to go after it without flawed strategies like using willpower, accountability buddies or scheduling in time to build your ideal future.

Willpower fades, schedules change and accountability buddies don’t help. Not on their own.

(But an accountability buddy who knows conversational hypnosis? That’s someone worth knowing…)

It all boils down to this:

Stay on your current path, wherever that leads.

Or register for Conversational Hypnosis & Future Crafting, and make your future bright:

This isn’t some piece of young person slang. Or outdated old person slang. All generational slang is awesome, without exception.

It’s not a meaningless corporate buzzword that makes every office worker roll their eyes. No, it’s actually quite meaningful.

And, no, it’s not the name of some tech company or app.

This word earns its place on the top of the list because of how common this is. You’ve heard folks use this word. You’ve likely used it yourself.

The sinister and stupid string of symbols?

Incentivise.

It’s a useful word. It means to use rewards and punishments to encourage specific behaviours. Handy.

But just look at those suffixes, mate.

The suffix -ive turns a verb (a doing word, like “run”) into a noun (an object, like “ball”). Such as collective and directive. You can collect or direct things, because they’re verbs. You can see a collective or have a directive, because they’re nouns.

And the suffix -ise (-ize if you’re a seppo) turns a noun into a verb. Words like productise (turn something into a product) and visualise (make something visual). These are things you do.

Hence why “incentivise” is so catastrophically ridiculous.

There’s the root word.

Then a suffix turns it from a verb to a noun.

Then another suffix turns it from a noun back into a verb. Those two suffixes do nothing but cancel each other out!

Whoever came up with that was clearly incented to use as many letters as they could.

It’s lucky the power of language doesn’t come from elegant adherence to the rules of grammar.

No, the power of language lies in having people understand you.

And you know that communication isn’t about conveying information. There’s always so much more to it than that. Information alone can’t inspire, or break the tension, or clarify anything but the simplest of simple things.

Most communication happens outside the mere words used. That’s why a simple phrase like “I’ll always be there” can convey adoration, despair, a threat or hundreds of other meanings.

That’s why conversational hypnosis is so awesome. It artfully works at this layer of communicating, meaning you can inspire people, change hearts and achieve amazing results, all with simple conversations.

It’s one of the most incredible skills around.

And you can learn it, in a little slice of paradise, right here:

I can’t promise you the future will be easy.

I don’t have that power. Life will do what life does, with all the ups and downs.

But the power I have?

Boy, oh boy.

I can make your future so much more simple. No more confusion about what to do. No more feeling overwhelmed.

And no more excuses.

I’m writing this on my phone in a crowded location. I’d much rather be at my home office, where it’s quiet and I can use a keyboard.

That sounds like an excuse though.

I know what I need to do to achieve my goals. Right now, write. Later today, record some videos and talk with some people.

All simple stuff, but it inches me closer to an amazing goal or two.

If this sounds basic, try living a decent life without this level of clarity.

Clarity is essential, but you can’t buy it at Bunnings. It’s a gift beyond measure.

And I give it to you so you can give it to others.

Future Crafting, powered by conversational hypnosis, can create more than clear, significant goals and plans to achieve them.

But it’s a great start.

Learn how to give folks in your life this gift here:

Future Crafting lets you, among other things, inspire others to get almost painfully clear about their true goals.

Not what others want for them – what they genuinely want for themselves.

“Can Future Crafting help my son get into a top university? “

Yes, if that’s something he wants. If not, it’ll lead him onto a different, more fulfilling life path.

“Can it help my sales team reach their quarterly targets?”

Oh, it’s great for that. Although it might inspire some of them to quit and start their own business.

With normal goal setting, you think about what you want. Bah. As if thinking about it could help.

No one is smart enough to reason themselves into a meaningful goal. Life is too sophisticated and unpredictable for that.

(If you were that smart, normal goals wouldn’t satisfy you. You’d need something more complicated. Then you’re back to the original situation.)

And if you can’t logic your way into a meaningful goal for yourself, you certainly can’t do that for someone else.

Future Crafting is a full body sport. Logic and reason are only part of it. It uses a ton of things outside conscious awareness – intuition, gut instinct and unconscious wisdom.

With conversational hypnosis, it’s simple to tap into these.

As simple as… well, a conversation.

You’ll see for yourself when you sign up here: