Initiative

"Committees are an infrastructure designed to race you to the bottom of opportunity!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Committees kill ideas. Committees kill all initiative. Committees kill the idea of innovation. Committees are the destroyer of all things. Did I mention I think committees are a bad idea? "

"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

"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

"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

"Avoid chaos. It's better to have an actual plan than the ‘concepts of a plan’" - Futurist Jim Carroll Let's talk about planning. It seems that a lot of people are suddenly talking about planning. Indeed, it seems there was a sudden spike in

"Today is a great day to start doing your next great thing!" - Futurist Jim Carroll At the start of the week, it's a great time to chase a great idea. And so why not commit yourself to trying to do something great today? I'