Daily Inspiration: “With the right attitude, some of the best moments in your life have yet to happen!”

“With the right attitude, some of the best moments in your life have yet to happen!” – Futurist Jim Carroll

Attitude is everything!

Not really, but it is a massive part of the equation – action is a critical part of your recipe for success! With that combination, you might have everything you need.

At least, it works for me – and I remind myself of this every single day. These continue to be perilous times in terms of what comes next.

As a futurist, I surround myself with facts, immerse myself in science, and find my bedrock in logic. Everything is telling me that 2021 is pretty much a wash for any sort of return to normalcy. My future mind tells me that we will still be on a global path of struggle well into 2022. The pandemic is too all-encompassing, thrust upon a world that was ill-equipped to deal with it.

The result is that we are beset by complicated medical and transportation logistics, a society ripped  apart by misinformation, and a scientific reality that is offset by the desire of people to ‘just get this thing over with.’ These are not issues that are easily managed – indeed, they make our path forward far more difficult than most people realize.

For me, this makes it pretty much self-evident that the idea of returning to a stage as I did in my “previous life” this year is but a pipe dream, and that next year is also iffy. Oh, I continue to get offers from companies and speakers bureaus for engagements in the fall; I entertain them, but write in my Covid force-majeure clause, with full knowledge it will most likely have to be exercised.  All around me, I see event planners bubbling with excitement in the belief that the mere existence of vaccines means that society will suddenly, in a flash, return to where it was a year ago. (It won’t).

I am surrounded by people who fail to grasp the complex road that we find ourselves on. I sometimes want to scream at them the basics of reality – and then remind myself my best action is, in this case, no action at all.

When I think about these things, I have a brief moment of panic and feel myself potentially on the edge of despair.

But then I remind myself that I own my future – I am in control. With that in mind, I go down into the studio and work on my next show about reinvention, design another stage set, or experiment with a new camera angle. That brings me back – it ignites the oxygen of optimism that I know I have burning deep within my soul.

Because I am the one who gets to define what comes next – and I have the power to make it into something awesome!