The Daily Inspiration

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

Being Different

"Your inner oddness is not a flaw. It’s a superpower!" - Futurist Jim Carroll With a little bit of downtime, I've been working in the home office on my next book. The title keeps flipping around: right now, I've settled on "Being

Being Different
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Hockey Vs. Strategy

Hockey Vs. Strategy

"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

Making Wrong Right.

Making Wrong Right.

"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

Forward, Not Back

Forward, Not Back

"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

Idea Farming

Idea Farming

"Any idea worth growing should always be planted!" - Futurist Jim Carroll From small ideas, big things can grow! That's what I was thinking about yesterday as I spent time with my long-time friend Marc Jeftovic. He's the CEO of easyDNS, a tech company

Doors and Windows.

Doors and Windows.

"Regret: It's that thing you'll live with if you never do the things you should have tried to do!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Life is a series of doors of opportunity all waiting to be opened! Are you keeping them shut? I was reminded

Wasted Time Well Spent

Wasted Time Well Spent

"Thinking of innovation? Invest in an experience factory!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I wasted quite a bit of time yesterday. It was great. What was I doing? I'm trying to figure out how to move my various Websites and servers from a Runcloud setup over to

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