"Own your tomorrow" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Today's photo is from my keynote yesterday in Dublin for KPMG - what a wonderful stage!
I spent a bit of time speaking to the audience that it was up to them to master the skill of just-in-time knowledge using new AI tools - it's up to every one of them to enhance their skills by taking on personal responsibility for this new knowledge voyage.
Personal responsibility - they are responsible for their future, not someone else.
And that's a key point that relates to a bigger issue - if you don't set your plan for the future, someone else will!
It’s your future. No one is going to hand it to you on a silver platter. You’ve got to figure it out and direct how it will unfold. That means taking personal responsibility and ownership for the decisions that you’ll make along the way. You can't blame others for the mistakes that you might make; in the same way, you can’t think that your success is the result of the effort of other people.
Your future IS all about you.
Own it, shape it, direct it, get intimately involved with it. Because, at the end of the day, you are the one who is going to be most involved in living it.
This means, of course, you need some good insight into the trends that might impact your future. That’s why you need a good personal ‘trends radar.’ You can better shape and own your future if you have better insight into what comes next - and so learning how to become a futurist for your future is probably one of the best things that you can do.
How do you do that? Immerse yourself in knowledge; bathe in insight; surround yourself with optimists; devour critical thinking; and constantly be on the prowl for signs and directions into what comes next. Keep an open mind rather than a closed viewpoint. Listen to different opinions - while you don’t necessarily have to agree with them, you should develop the ability to interpret them.
Above all, decide to take action. Reinvent yourself, your skills, your capabilities, your knowledge. Don’t presume that anything you know today will be relevant tomorrow; don’t become complacent with the idea that the skill you have right now will be valuable tomorrow; don’t believe that your current comfort zone will be the target zone for what comes next.
It’s your future - it doesn’t belong to anyone else.
What you decide to do with it is what matters.
Futurist Jim Carroll takes the issue of 'personal responsibility' very seriously.