Personal Growth

"The time to escape mediocrity comes when you recognize the need to!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm considering a sequel! Should I? With the impending release of the book about mediocrity, I've realized the perfect companion piece to it is an anti-mediocrity book! Let&

"Innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles!" - Futurist Jim Carroll That's me in the photo above, taken yesterday during a sandcastle-building competition in Costa Rica. Later this morning, I'll keynote the National Association of Landscape Professionals leadership forum. Naturally, my attention was drawn

"It's easy to embrace mediocrity, but harder still to resist its comfortable embrace!" - Futurist Jim Carroll For someone who loves to rush into a project, the process of seeing a project through to completion can be sometimes maddening. With that in mind, my wife and

"Your biggest opportunity right now is to keep moving forward while others are going backward!" - Futurist Jim Carroll There's a pretty big divide between forward thinkers vs. backward movers. We are living through the era of a shift from progressive trends to regressive attitudes. On

"On some days, focused distraction is the best action!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Sometimes, you just don't need to pay attention. You can choose not to tune in but you can drop out. Timothy Leary said that. This can be particularly important when you don'

"Always remember that the toughest decisions are usually the right ones!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's difficult to make difficult decisions! That doesn't' mean they shouldn't be made - because the very action of not making the decision will make the