Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Lemonade

Life is going to throw curveballs at you—that's a guarantee. You'll have big wins and moments that feel like a total letdown. The secret is not to let those letdowns define you.

Lemonade
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The Recession Addiction

The Recession Addiction

"The US consumer seems to have entered into a state of perpetual economic gloom. Jome companies seem all too eager to follow them into the abyss" - Futurist Jim Carroll Here we go again! I seem to spend a lot of time talking companies off the ledge, and

It's the Video, Stupid.

It's the Video, Stupid.

"When your missteps are under a microscope, your mistakes are massively magnified!" - Futurist Jim Carroll The LMPD has no case. It knows this but is trying to save face by talking Scotty Scheffler down to a misdemeanor. His lawyer knows they have no case, but the police

Ideas.

Ideas.

"There will always be someone with a better idea!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Never rest on your laurels. Never become complacent. Never presume that your idea is the best idea, the only idea, the greatest idea. Because there is always another better one! People who spend time with

The Relativity of Judgement

The Relativity of Judgement

"A Gentle Reminder: One person's concept of success is another person's idea of failure" - Futurist Jim Carroll A few days ago, I finished the book "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul." It was a good

Courage?

Courage?

"Hesitation is the currency of cowards!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Successful people move forward with decisiveness - failures never move forward because they waste too much time waiting to make the decisions that matter. I wasn't quite happy with the original image I created for today&

Unproductivity

Unproductivity

"Waste time well" - Futurist Jim Carroll Wasted time is productive time. And yet, it is criticized.  It is the common view that those who waste time are lazy, distracted, and not at all helpful. And apparently, there is a lot of this unproductive time - according to

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