Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Tesla Abandons Automotive

This is what happens when you link a once-powerful brand to a toxic message; a once-revered founder becomes erratic and hateful; and a once innovation-rich organization becomes bled dry of its creative engine.

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Acceleration

Intelligently Inactive

I'm a guy who, at my age, is in pretty decent physical shape and always VERY active - and now the most important thing I can do is to be intelligently inactive.

Personal Growth

Zooming to Acceptance.

I'm busy learning from the very message I've often shared on stage!

Personal Growth

Tomorrow.

Do you see the opportunities, or the barriers in the way?

2026

10 Great Words for 2026

Each year, since 2006, I have started the year with my 10 Great Words list.

2026

26 Principles for 2026: #26 Escape Mediocrity

Opportunities become even bigger when exponential trends become a reality. But here's the thing - it's up to you whether you will turn it into an opportunity, or whether the challenge will bury you. It depends on the choices you make and the actions you take.

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