Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

"‘Your time is gonna’ come’ need not be your epitaph!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Innovate or die. It's that simple. Here's a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren't: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack.

"Reality always trumps wishful thinking!" - Futurist Jim Carroll There's a reality gap. A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they

"Do the hard things" - Futurist Jim Carroll How many times do you say to yourself, "I'll do the easy things first!" And then you just keep doing the easy things over and over again, always avoiding the hard stuff. And you never make

"If you keep chasing motivation instead of chasing trends, you're doing tomorrow all wrong!" - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most interesting - and perhaps one of the most common - situations in my line of work is when you get contacted by a potential

"Prove them wrong!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Your life is often defined by a series of barriers established by someone other than yourself. The barriers are established by them to tell you that you can't accomplish something - prove them wrong! That you don't

"Aligning to tomorrow? You’ll succeed when you get beyond a series of awful decisions driven by the delusion of denial!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Most people believe that they can keep doing tomorrow what they are doing today, even when what they are doing today is not