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Daily Inspiration: “A measure of a day’s success? Short, sharp shocks of small activities!”
“A measure of a day’s success? Short, sharp shocks of small activities!” - #Futurist Jim Carroll Focus is a precious resource! There is so much…
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Daily Inspiration: “Have you ever noticed that the implications of your inaction on the small things that don’t matter are usually even more profound complications with the bigger things that really matter?"
“Have you ever noticed that the implications of your inaction on the small things that don’t matter are usually even more profound complications with the…
Daily Inspiration: “Each and every day, you have the opportunity to live up to your full potential!”
“Each and every day, you have the opportunity to live up to your full potential!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Life is a game of choices…
Daily Inspiration: “Every single day is a holiday once you start to put first things first!”
“Every single day is a holiday once you start to put first things first!” - #Futurist Jim Carroll It’s a HOLIDAY! And so it’s not…
Daily Inspiration: “Innovate like your future depends on it. Because it does!”
“Innovate like your future depends on it. Because it does!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Innovation isn't optional anymore. It's your path to survival. It's also…
Daily Inspiration: "Today you have the chance to start to live the best life you will ever live! Will you seize the opportunity?"
Daily Inspiration: “...draw some personal inspiration from the inspiration that you have inspired in others!”
“When you need it the most, you’ll learn that you will will draw some personal inspiration from the inspiration that you have inspired in others!”…
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Daily Inspiration: "If bold thinking is the oil of the era of disruption - access to specialized skills is the lubricant!"
Daily Inspiration: “It’s when you master new, small skills that you know that one day, bigger opportunities might yet emerge!”
“It’s when you master new, small skills that you know that one day, bigger opportunities might yet emerge!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The major excitement this…
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Daily Inspiration: "Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and suddenly, they're massively transformative!"
Daily Inspiration: "Legacy is death! But disruption? It's rebirth!"
“Legacy is death! But disruption? It's rebirth!" - Futurist Jim Carroll What worked for you in the past won’t work for you in the future. There…
Daily Inspiration: "Ideas are energy! When you share them, you've got rocket fuel!"
Daily Inspiration: “If your dilemma is making a decision - make a decision!”
“If your dilemma is making a decision - make a decision!” #Futurist Jim Carroll Indecision is the root of all evil. At least, it impedes…
Daily inspiration: "Today's impossibility? It’s tomorrow’s certainty!"
“Today’s impossibility? It’s tomorrow’s certainty!” You can’t have a forward thinking mind and not have a tear come to your eye when you watch…
Daily Inspiration: "Real knowledge comes from the diversity of insight, the inclusiveness of different ideas!"
Daily Inspiration: "There is always an upside to the downside!"
Daily Inspiration: "Don’t be fearful of change: be terrified of standing still!"
“Don’t be fearful of change: be terrified of standing still!” I’ve got a brand new Web site - check it out at https://jimcarroll.com I couldn’t…
Daily Inspiration: "You can’t procrastinate your way to the future!"
Daily Inspiration: Are You Fred, or George?
Daily Inspiration: "Intelligent, hyperconnected infrastructure is the Rodney Dangerfield of the era of autonomy!"
Daily Inspiration: "Count your blessings. Not your chickens!"
Daily Inspiration: "Your fear of the future might be fateful. For your future!"
Daily Inspiration: "Don’t say ‘it won’t work' - make it work!"
Daily Inspiration: “Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. This is your reality. Deal with it. Keep innovating!”
“Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. This is your reality. Deal with it. Keep innovating!” - Futurist Jim Carroll A clip from my 'show' yesterday and my online 'broadcast'…
Daily Inspiration: “Try as you might, you can’t mask your mistakes and hide your failures forever!”
“Try as you might, you can’t mask your mistakes and hide your failures forever!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Transparency will always win in the long…
Daily Inspiration: "Offbeat ideas are often the best ideas, because the solution to your problem is usually not the obvious one!"
Daily Inspiration: "If complacency is the killer, ambition is the antidote!"
Daily Inspiration: "Identify your biggest challenge. Then decide to do that one thing!"
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Daily Inspiration: "Things might never be as good as you might dream, but ought not to be as bad as you might fear!"
Daily Inspiration: "When the village is raising an idiot..."
Daily Inspiration - “Your absolutely worst failure? It’s also your biggest opportunity!”
“Your absolutely worst failure? It’s also your biggest opportunity!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s when you hit the bottom that you can rise to the…
Daily Inspiration: “It’s often better to know what you don’t know than to know what you know..."
“It’s often better to know what you don’t know than to know what you know - because that will be the inspiration for your action!”…
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Daily Inspiration: "Inaction is not a good excuse for failure!"
Why "Bandwagon Innovation" and "Pursuing What's Hot" is Doomed to Fail!
Daily Inspiration: "Change the change barriers!"
“To be a change maker, change the change barriers!” The photo is from an event for a major insurance company almost two years ago, but…
Daily Inspiration: “Futurists? Consider it our job to shine a light of hope for what might come next!”
“Futurists? Consider it our job to shine a light of hope for what might come next!” - Futurist Jim Carroll There are always opportunities for…
Daily Inspiration: “Fear? Worry? Anxiety? It’s a really good time right now to come up with a plan to learn to something you’ve never done before!”
“Fear? Worry? Anxiety? It’s a really good time right now to come up with a plan to learn to something you’ve never done before!” -…
Daily Inspiration: “The world is changing fast. But you can be faster!”
“The world is changing fast. But you can be faster!” - Futurist Jim Carroll My tag line in my old stage life used to be "the…
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Daily Inspiration: "Frame your future by what you can accomplish next, not by the things that you have already done!"
Daily Inspiration: “Choose to be your better self!”
“Choose to be your better self!” - Futurist Jim Carroll This is truly turning out to be a battle for the optimism within your soul…
Daily Inspiration: “Never stop exploring the boundary of your imagination and the edge of opportunity...."
“Never stop exploring the boundary of your imagination and the edge of opportunity: particularly when your future is found in an undefined map of opportunity!” - Futurist Jim…
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Daily Inspiration: "Autonomy, robotics, virtualization, digitization: these are the accelerating complexifiers of your industry today!"
Daily Inspiration: "Are you going to do the same thing today that you did yesterday? Don't!"
Daily Inspiration: "Reinvent yourself at the speed of change!"
Daily Inspiration: “#BeTheNorth - The world needs more Canada!”
“#BeTheNorth - The world needs more Canada!” - #Futurist Jim Carroll It’s a fun morning to wake up in Canada. Toronto, in fact! We’re NBA…
Daily Inspiration: "Worrying about your won't prevent it. Doing something about it will let you create it!"
Daily Inspiration: "As attention spans collapse, the clarity of your message is absolutely critical!"
Daily Inspiration: "Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived...."
Daily Inspiration - "Your intuition is often smarter than you think"
Daily Inspiration: "Maybe the worst assumption you can make is that you have enough time!"
Daily Inspiration: "Pursue epic-ness. That is all!"
Daily Inspiration: “Science is moving so fast, we might one day soon be able to architect a ‘lighter-than-air’ jet!"
“Science is moving so fast, we might one day soon be able to architect a ‘lighter-than-air’ jet - just like that of Wonder Woman!” -…
Daily Inspiration: "Business model disruption...You need to pick up the pace when it comes to your innovation efforts!"
Daily Inspiration: “Don’t be average, just like everyone else. Strive to be better, to be your own extraordinary self!”
“Don’t be average, just like everyone else. Strive to be better, to be your own extraordinary self!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It's pretty amazing what…
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Daily Inspiration: "Be inspired by your imagination, but be focused on your initiative!"
Daily Inspiration: "“zoomed out” — phrasal verb / adjective / zumed out/"
“zoomed out” — phrasal verb / adjective / zumed out/ " The feeling that there are too many business and personal videoconferences each day: “Another damn…
Those who succeed...
Daily Inspiration: “The global pandemic has created a war between fast moving events and previously slow-moving organizations!"
“The global pandemic has created a war between fast moving events and previously slow-moving organizations!"- Futurist Jim Carroll There's a lot to unpack in this…
Daily Inspiration: "You can view the future with a negative filter and be terrified by the change it represents. Or, you can examine it through another lens......"
Daily Inspiration: "You have a choice: the future is going to happen whether you like it or not. Will you be part of it?"
Daily Inspiration: "...a quick flash of inspiration that comes at you like a bolt out of the blue!”
“Sometimes all it takes is a quick flash of inspiration that comes at you like a bolt out of the blue!” - #Futurist Jim Carroll…
Daily Inspiration: "Stop saying, 'whoah, I didn't see that coming,' because we told you about it long ago!"
Daily Inspiration: “The more the future changes, the more it stays the same!”
“The more the future changes, the more it stays the same!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Many people think that the global economy is on pause…
Daily Inspiration: "If the day ahead leaves you feeling challenged - then start your day by challenging your attitude!"
Daily Inspiration: "Every moment has some magic!"
Daily Inspiration: "Inaction in the face of opportunity is but an excuse!"
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Daily Inspiration: "Make the future your own - start by turning on your imagination machine!"
Motivational Futurist!
Daily Inspiration: "Trends are like fickle friends. You need to pay attention to them, if you don't it might not work out well!"
Daily Inspiration: “Take comfort in the fact that if people laugh at your ideas, it usually means that you are on the right track!”
“Take comfort in the fact that if people laugh at your ideas, it usually means that you are on the right track!” -#Futurist Jim Carroll…
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Daily Inspiration: "If everything changes, but you don't, you have a bit of a problem!"
Touch the Future!
Daily Inspiration: “An open mind is an opportunity waiting to be born - while a closed mind is an incubator of certain failure!”
“An open mind is an opportunity waiting to be born - while a closed mind is an incubator of certain failure!” - Futurist Jim Carroll…
Daily Inspiration: "Don’t talk about your comfort zone if you can’t get out of it"
Daily Inspiration: "Stop making excuses for your inaction!"
Daily Inspiration: "Fire up your imagination endorphins!"
Daily Inspiration: "The future is both fast and slow - and you need to adjust your speed!"
Daily Inspiration: "The thing about conventional wisdom is that it is usually wrong!"
Daily Inspiration:" Ignore for a moment all the doom and the gloom: rather, invest your time wisely with the trends and ideas from which your future might bloom!” -
“Ignore for a moment all the doom and the gloom: rather, invest your time wisely with the trends and ideas from which your future might…
Daily inspiration: "A life in shambles...."
“A life in a shambles is really just in transition to the next opportunity!” I think if I ever retire, I will get into a…
Daily Inspiration: "Don’t fear the opportunity. BE the opportunity!"
Daily Inspiration: "Be bold in your thinking. Aggressive with assumptions. Challenging with conclusions. Then accelerate your actions!"
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