What Is Future-Proofing Yourself? Updated for 2024

Last updated on November 21, 2024 by tonydebree 8 Comments

What is future-proofing yourself by Tony de Bree

Updated: November 21, 2024

Morning,

as we are in a second lockdown’ in The Netherlands and we are approaching the New year, I wanted to share some of my personal tips and experiences on how to future-proof yourself in 2021 and how I do that personally in a number of blogs and pitch-videos on www.tonydebree.online.

What is ‘future-proofing yourself?

Future-proofing yourself is the process of anticipating the future soft- and hard skills you personally need to minimize the effects of shocks and stresses of future events and to acquire the relevant skills for you personally in time.

More: ‘7 Tips To Achieve A Positive Mindset During This Crisis’ ‘Why You Should Focus On Relevant Life-Long Learning During Covid-19’

In this definition, the word ‘relevant‘ is critical. Why? Because depending on your personal profile, your current skillset and your personal financial situation for instance, a life-event like losing your current highly-paid job will be different from the impact on other highly-educated people for instance.

And thus ‘future-proofing’ yourself will have to be an individual exercise with an individual right-skilling plan with a different sense of urgency for all of us individually.

If you have any question or request, please do not hesitate to call me on Skype on tony.de.bree or email me here

Kind regards,
Tony de Bree

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About the Author: tonydebree

Tony de Bree worked in Financial Services including in corporate venturing and e-commerce for 26 years and he made the transition from banker to entrepreneur working from home and making money online with his own "online plan b" with digital products as side-hustles in 2000 and as hybrid business owner since 2011. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, he helps corporates, small business owners, startups & scaleups to define and implement the best digital survival strategy and he helps managers and employees to become a successful entrepreneur with a personal digital-right skilling plan.