Our world is awash in a sea of information. Every day, hundreds of thousands of substantial new articles are published on news websites, journals, magazines, and blogs around the world—and that doesn’t account the tiny tweets, reposts of old information, and poorly written articles designed to attract Google searchers for the ad dollars they generate.
How can you know what is important—and what is an interruption, a distraction, a diversion?
Consider that, for any place (or people group, or vision), there are key places, events, and trends that can change the future of that place.
For example, some global flashpoints include the city of Jerusalem, the country of North Korea, the ethnic violence in the Caucasus, and the US-Mexico Drug Corridor (among others). Any event that happens in these particular places can have substantial global consequences.
In smaller countries there are smaller flashpoints that will impact the country. One example of this is the recently in-the-news oil-rich town of Abyei in Sudan. Both the North and South of Sudan claimed Abyei and wanted its resources. In May, the North invaded. As I write this, civil war seems to be one very possible outcome.
Identifying and tracking your vision’s “flashpoints” is one way to monitor what is important without getting mired in minutia, urban tales, and wild rumors. The list of flashpoints will likely be small. It should be a collection of places or categories of events where anything occurring could impact the next five years.
For an example of 15 global vulnerabilities and opportunities, check out our article at http://wp.me/pAN31-23
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