What if you could send an email to your future self?

Well, you can - thanks to a clever tool created by  Forbes.Com

Between now and November 30th, Forbes.Com is accepting messages for its "E-Mail Time Capsule."  There is no charge for participating; all you have to do is compose a message to be delivered to you a year from now or later, and stipulate the email address that you think you'll keep for the duration.

Here are my suggestions for nonprofit and philanthropic professionals:

Include your organization's mission, strategy, and tactics.

Include your predictions about how you think your organization will succeed in fulfilling its plans.

Include your general predictions about trends in your sector, in civil society, in the environment, in the arts, or any other field that pertains to your work.

Include your personal and professional goals.

It would be interesting to compile these messages from the current day in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector and compare notes twenty years from now.  The only prediction that I can make with confidence is that most of us will be extravagantly mistaken in our predictions for the future, since "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."