Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

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About this Recession

Discussions I have with people, show all the other warning signs - projects being postponed, capital budgets being curtailed, strategic planning sessions being canceled.

Books

Close the Gap

If you don't have what it takes, do what it takes to get to what it takes!

Dancing in the Rain Book

Choosing to Dance

There is a trap in this thinking: the new normal won't be the same as the old normal. While you are busy waiting to get back to it, 'it' will have changed.

Initiative

Commit to It

Start saying when. Better yet, start saying now.

Dancing in the Rain Book

Chaos Warriors

Chaos reveals opportunities that rigid thinking can't see.

Success

"Don't just get by. Get better!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I meet a lot of marginal people. They live marginal lives. Chasing marginal goals. With marginal ideas. And keep achieving, well, marginal things! What causes this? Part of it is that they just adopt a mindset