Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

Thoughts, stories and ideas about tomorrow from Futurist Jim Carroll. Sent each workday since August 2016.

2026

Why Canada Wins: I Asked “Where’s the Growth?” in 2009.

Mark Carney Seems to Have Read the Playbook in 2026 (And my book!)

Why Canada Wins: I Asked “Where’s the Growth?” in 2009.

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Success

Momentum

Momentum

"Your moment is right now. Are you ready?"

Creativity

Waste More Time!

Waste More Time!

"Invest in your creative capital. You'll see a return on your imagination!"

Big Future

The Reality of Trends

The Reality of Trends

"One person's skepticism is another person's gold!"

Exponential change

Exponential Change

Exponential Change

"Are you ready for the inconceivable to become conceivable?"

Artificial Intelligence

Bend Your Mind

Bend Your Mind

Make your imagination matter more."

Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

"A strategy based on hype isn't a strategy. It's a tombstone for cash"

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Innovation

Shake it up!

"Tomorrow is yesterday's missed opportunity" if you don't change things up!

Leadership

Expediency

Expediency

The speed with which people back away from their previously strongly held beliefs indicates that those beliefs were nothing but temporary expediency.

Success

Fore!

Fore!

You can’t just hope to succeed. You need to engineer the outcome.

Faster

Shifting!

Shifting!

If you keep saying “I didn’t see that coming!" you are doing it all wrong.

Being Unique

Being Unique

Being Unique

What if we had a guide path, an action plan, and a roadmap for how to align ourselves in the same way that they've thought about tomorrow?

Success

Putting in the Work

Putting in the Work

real change isn't a single, grand event; it is the compounding effect of small, intentional choices.

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