“Stretch your imagination, it’s like yoga for your mind!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
‘’ At yoga yesterday, it was said I should relax my mind.
I kept busy by thinking up today’s motivational quote! (Yes, I go to yoga…)
by JimCarroll
“Stretch your imagination, it’s like yoga for your mind!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
‘’ At yoga yesterday, it was said I should relax my mind.
I kept busy by thinking up today’s motivational quote! (Yes, I go to yoga…)
by JimCarroll
“Disrupt Amazon! Turn your strategy upside down, and the predictable response into the unexpected!” Futurist Jim Carroll
I’m getting a lot of calls for keynotes on business model #disruption, much of it involving Amazon! In January, I’ll speak to 500 agricultural dealers in San Antonio – they’re small companies or co-ops, and suddenly discovering that Amazon is now a competitor for some product lines. How do you compete? You don’t! You change the strategy and focus on service, relationships, and other things that Amazon can’t do!
This is one of many such talks I’m doing — it’s a big issue and a big challenge!’’
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For just over a year, I’ve started every workday morning with a cup of coffee, my laptop, and a photo from one of the stages on which I’ve appeared.
I’m thrilled to say that magically, this little bit of morning mediation has now turned into my next book!
Here’s the backstory – each morning, I find a photo from one of the countless stages on which I’ve appeared, where I’ve been busy talking about the future and trends. I spend some time, while sipping my coffee, thinking about the story that I was telling on stage for that particular photo. I wrap that story into an inspirational quote, work it into the photo, and release it into the world.
The reaction has been pretty remarkable – it seems to be touching people! When released, the quote goes up on Instagram, and is automatically blasted out to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more. I figure that about now, the daily photo reaches about 50,000 people each day.
Those quotes have now morphed into my next book – an active work in progress – #38! I anticipate a release in the 2nd quarter of 2018. The working title? “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Stories from the Stage on Innovation, Disruption and the Accelerating Future.”
The books goes behind the scenes on many of these photos — which really are my observations that people have on hope, fear, the future and change. As a futurist and a speaker, you are in a really unique situation to observe how people choose to cope with what comes next. Some do – many don’t. There are powerful lessons to be learned from how people react to the future, and how they deal with change.
It’s been almost 5 years since I’ve released a book, and I am tremendously exited to be working on this one. What seems to be coming together is 25 years of insight from having the ability to share my thoughts on the future, trends, disruption and acceleration with over 2 million people from the stage.
Stay tuned!
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“No idea is too crazy, no goal is unreachable, and no effort is too imperfect. Define yourself by the scale of your dreams, and by the scope of your actions!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
‘’ 7 years ago today, @NASA had me in for a talk to a senior leadership meeting – the first of 2 times! In the room were astronauts, mission controllers, program directors. At the time, the agency was faced with uncertainty in its future, with budget cutbacks, cancellations, and more.
My talk re-examined the future and challenged them to think about what happened in previous times of uncertainty. The core and soul of my talk was on the theme “Transformational Leadership”
Did it work? The feedback said so: ““Great presentation, great perspective, EXCELLENT on all accounts.” “Outstanding. Very thought provoking which I believe was the intent” “I resonated with this speaker; it’s very hard, NASA needs more of this kind of attitude to more readily accept changes to explore/exploit opportunities” – NASASpace Centre
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“Define your success by the optimism you’ve instilled in your children!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
Each workday morning, a short bit of inspirational insight from Jim. No clutter, no muss, no fuss. Archives are at https://inspiration.jimcarroll.com
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