Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Inspiration

Steps

You don’t reinvent yourself at the moment of crisis. You reinvent yourself in all the unremarkable days that follow it.

Latest stories

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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

Acceleration

BIG Thinking

"There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!" = Futurist Jim Carroll One of my fellow futurists recently included this line in a post I read - "We should be pulling more photons from the sun." He wrote it as an

Initiative