A ten-year journal hiding in plain sight
Daily Inspiration began as a quote. It did not stay a quote.
Across 2,582 working-day posts, the series gradually became one of the richest continuous records of Jim Carroll’s thinking: innovation and creativity, acceleration and disruption, leadership and reinvention, industries and technology, predictions and retrospectives, and the personal philosophy underneath the work.
This collection is not a ranking of the “best” hundred. It is an editorial map of 100 essential entries chosen for substance, conceptual importance, historical value, breadth and their ability to connect different parts of the futurist.info knowledge system.
The purpose is discovery. A reader should be able to enter the archive here and understand how a morning quotation evolved into a serious body of foresight.
How to read the collection
Some entries are important because they are long and deeply argued. Others are important because they capture an idea early. Some became named frameworks. Some are industry essays. Some are predictions that can now be judged with hindsight.
Together they show the Daily Inspiration series becoming an intellectual laboratory.
The essential 100
01. Daily Inspiration: “Expect velocity. Plan for acceleration. Structure for intensity. Execute relentlessly.”
2017-05-30 · approximately 1,818 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Expect velocity. Plan for acceleration.
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02. Daily Inspiration: “Never underestimate the ability of remarkable individuals or successful companies to implode!”
2018-05-29 · approximately 708 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: It probably means that you are in pretty big trouble. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been brought into an extensive number of Fortune 1000 leadership meetings at a senior level in order to speak about future trends an innovation - simply take a look at my client list to get a sense of who I work with.
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03. Daily Inspiration: “Play on purpose - simply to boost your ‘experiential capital!’”
2020-01-13 · approximately 542 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Play on purpose - simply to boost your ‘experiential capital!’” - Futurist Jim Carroll Today’s theme in my series “Insight 2020: Leadership Insight for the Era of Acceleration” - #6 of 20 - is “Boost Experiential Capital!” Learn more about the series here: https://insight2020.jimcarroll.com – it runs through the month! Let me explain the context: it’s a story that I started telling on stage about 1999 or so, when it became evident to me that many organizations were unclear of how to prepare for
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04. Daily Inspiration: “A futurist ? We are your beacon of hope in a world gone mad, an anchor for your sanity!”
2020-10-15 · approximately 582 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “A futurist ? We are your beacon of hope in a world gone mad, an anchor for your sanity!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Hot damn, it was fun to talk about 2030 again!
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05. Daily Inspiration: “Santa rocks at innovation!”
2020-12-02 · approximately 889 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Santa rocks at innovation!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Every year around this time, I share a blog post I wrote way back in 2006: “Why Santa Rocks at Innovation!” This year, I decided to go one better from my virtual broadcast studio - I decided to interview Santa himself, for insight on how he has adapted to Covid-19! It’s the first in my new series ‘Reinventing Your Reality: Stories from the Studio On Personal Growth and the Future.’ This irregular series will feature me interviewing a wide range
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06. Daily Inspiration: “The secret to figuring out the future? It’s not the headline: it’s the trend it represents!”
2021-02-26 · approximately 537 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The secret to figuring out the future? It’s not the headline: it’s the trend it represents!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I launched a new series yesterday - Ask.A.Futurist - via ask.jimcarroll.com - gives me a structure to take the many questions that I get from people and work them into a series of short, fast video clips.
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07. Daily Inspiration: “Grateful!”
2021-04-06 · approximately 1,536 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Grateful!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Fast medical science - the concept of pharmacogenetics, the marriage of DNA science with healthcare and pharma - this is one of the key trends that have defined my healthcare keynotes for 25+ years! The world of science and healthcare moves incredibly fast -yesterday, I was a grateful recipient of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
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08. Daily Inspiration: “The acceleration gap is real, it’s growing, and your inability to narrow it will increasingly impact your future!”
2021-05-05 · approximately 562 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The acceleration gap is real, it’s growing, and your inability to narrow it will increasingly impact your future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It needs to be put into stark terms - the future used to be fast; now it’s faster, and you are falling behind all the time. Are you prepared to do the hard work, the heavy lifting, and the necessary effort to bridge the gap?
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09. Daily Inspiration: “‘Just-in-time knowledge’ - your ability to access the right knowledge, at the right time, for the right purpose - will be the key to your more complex future!”
2021-05-20 · approximately 744 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “‘Just-in-time knowledge’ - your ability to access the right knowledge, at the right time, for the right purpose - will be the key to success in your more complex future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Flashback - I’m on stage on this day in 2015 to open a meeting for the global human resource leadership executives for Honeywell. My focus was on emerging skills and HR trends in the aerospace, materials science, and building technology industries.
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10. Daily Inspiration: “Every great legacy should always be right at the edge of the precipice of reinvention!”
2021-06-10 · approximately 533 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Every great legacy should always be right at the edge of the precipice of reinvention!” - Futurist Jim Carroll You can always enjoy all the success in the world - but you should never become complacent. Every business model changes, and you need to align yourself to that reality, reinventing your pathway forward.
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11. Daily Inspiration: “Have you ever noticed you are surrounded by people who have a stunning inability to confront their future?”
2021-06-21 · approximately 525 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Have you ever noticed you are surrounded by people who have a stunning inability to confront their future?” - Futurist Jim Carroll “It’s not you - it’s them!” I’ve been working on identifying many of the trends that will define our post-pandemic future - we know we aren’t going back exactly to where we were before we were so rudely interrupted. One of the most significant is one that I was talking about pre-pandemic - the schism in society between those who were aligned to, and accepting the fu
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12. Daily Inspiration: “You certainly won’t make it ‘great again’ unless you put in the hard work!”
2021-07-13 · approximately 568 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “You certainly won’t make it ‘great again’ unless you put in the hard work!” - Futurist Jim Carroll My audiences began to change over the years, with more people developing an unhealthy expectation as to how much effort they would have to put in to get to the future. And that seemed to be the case with a few angry people when I was the opening keynote speaker, and then spoke on a panel, at the annual conference for the Mississippi Economic Development Corporation event in Biloxi.
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13. Daily Inspiration: “I bet you never thought you would find your future in manure!”
2021-10-29 · approximately 1,691 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “I bet you never thought you would find your future in manure!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I filmed a virtual keynote yesterday on the future of energy for a client who had to suddenly shift in direction. I don’t mind saying - it’s a 25-minute tour-de-force, and I will share it here later in November.
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14. Daily Inspiration: “Like it or not, your strategy must now take into account a growing number of people who are simply, comfortably dumb!”
2021-11-04 · approximately 641 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Like it or not, your strategy must now take into account a growing number of people who are simply, comfortably dumb!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s my grumpy face! Every once in a while, my optimism and sunny outlook breaks, and I worry about ‘what comes next?’ That certainly happened a few months ago when I wrote this blog post, “The Dark Underside of a Usually Optimistic Future: How Bad Could Things Get?
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15. Daily Inspiration: “Innovation is all about not yet knowing how to do something - but doing it anyway!”
2021-11-11 · approximately 649 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Innovation is all about not yet knowing how to do something - but doing it anyway!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s talk experiential capital! It’s often better to try to do the new things you don’t know how to do instead of keep doing the things that you do know how to do!
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16. Daily Inspiration: “Arrogance and Hubris: An ingrained attitude of invincibility that leads people to the belief that “we don’t need to do that right now.”
2021-11-24 · approximately 970 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Arrogance and Hubris: An ingrained attitude of invincibility that leads people to the belief that “we don’t need to do that right now.” - Futurist Jim Carroll What does it mean when your CEO says “we don’t have to do that right now?” It probably means that you are in pretty big trouble! Over the last 25 years, I’ve been brought into an extensive number of Fortune 1000 leadership meetings at a senior level in order to speak about future trends and innovations - simply take a look at my client li
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17. Daily Inspiration: “The future is no longer about tomorrow - it is about today!”
2021-11-29 · approximately 589 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The future is no longer about tomorrow - it is about today!” - Futurist Jim Carroll When inviting a futurist on stage to open a corporate or association leadership event, people love the Back to the Future theme! Over the years, I’ll often find myself not only with a fantastic stage setup, but also a DeLorean from the film.
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18. Daily Inspiration: “When your old future is over, it’s time to build yourself a new one!”
2021-12-03 · approximately 1,504 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “When your old future is over, it’s time to build yourself a new one!” - Futurist Jim Carroll 11 years ago yesterday, I gave a dinner keynote to a senior leadership team at NASA. What a crowd - astronauts, program managers, launch controllers, and literally, rocket engineers!
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19. Daily Inspiration: “Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!”
2021-12-06 · approximately 1,210 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Way back in 2005, I wrote a blog post that summarized much of what I had been talking about in the previous year as the key trends defining the future of agriculture. Little did I know that search engines would rocket the post to the top of the list for many searches related to the topic and that this would become the most heavily trafficked page on my Web site in the years to come!
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20. “10 Phrases That Define 2022!”
2021-12-28 · approximately 1,048 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: ABOUT JIM CARROLL Jim is the world’s leading global futurist, keynote speaker, business trends, and transformation expert, recognized worldwide for his compelling motivational style, delivered on stage or via his world-class virtual broadcast studio. In his 30-year career as a speaker, Jim has shared his insight with over 2 million people worldwide.
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21. Daily Inspiration: “It’s what we do on the days that are tough that can redefine our mindset for when the days are easier!”
2022-04-13 · approximately 1,750 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “It’s what we do on the days that are tough that can redefine our mindset for when the days are easier!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Never take things for granted - and know that you derive your strength for your future during those moments when times are tough. That’s because what you do during those moments will help to change your mindset as you go into a new and different future.
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22. Daily Inspiration: “Organizational Sclerosis: It’s when the arteries of creativity become clogged up…”
2022-04-22 · approximately 871 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Organizational Sclerosis: It’s when the arteries of creativity become clogged up because everyone keeps doing that one thing that no one remembers the need for, but they keep on doing it even though they don’t know why!” - Futurist Jim Carroll “Why are you doing that?” “I don’t know. We’ve always done it!” “What does it achieve.” “I’m not quite sure.’ “Has anyone ever asked if it’s useful, or if we should keep doing it?” “I don’t know.
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23. Daily Inspiration: “If you are too busy making time for excuses, you’ll never find time for success!”
2022-05-18 · approximately 854 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If you are too busy making time for excuses, you’ll never find time for success!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Organizations fail because they have failure ingrained in their corporate culture - powered by the excuses they make for inaction! Do you?
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24. Daily Inspiration: “With accelerating change, your ability to ignore the future is more than directly inverse to the impact it will have on you!”
2022-05-24 · approximately 800 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “With accelerating change, your ability to ignore the future is more than directly inverse to the impact it will have on you!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It used to be you could ignore what’s next. Today, you can, until you can’t.
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25. Daily Inspiration: “If you are looking for someone who will tell you what you want to hear, rather than what you need to hear, then you’ve got a bigger problem than you think!”
2022-05-26 · approximately 1,138 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “If you are looking for someone who will tell you what you want to hear, rather than what you need to hear, then you’ve got a bigger problem than you think!” - Futurist Jim Carroll “We don’t want you to talk about …” “Try and avoid the issue of …” “We’d prefer you not to discuss…” I regularly encounter organizations who prefer that I not go into the realty of some of the disruptive trends that are potentially the most destructive to their future. I’ve never quite understood why.
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26. Daily Inspiration: “Spend more time looking back from where you will be - rather than looking forward to where you might be!”
2022-07-05 · approximately 753 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Spend more time looking back from where you will be - rather than looking forward to where you might be!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Note: I decided that as I begin to return to real stages, it’s time to start making use once again of various real stage photos - so I’ll go back and forth between formats! This particular photo is from a manufacturing event I opened in Atlanta back in May; I was challenging the audience to imagine what they would be thinking if it was 2030, and they were imagining wh
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27. Daily Inspiration: “Leadership is all about giving people permission to chase their wildest imaginations!”
2022-07-11 · approximately 832 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Leadership is all about giving people permission to chase their wildest imaginations!” - Futurist Jim Carroll (A photo from my keynote for Siemens Energy CEO session last November in Orlando. The CEO actually arrived on stage in a DeLorean - I followed him moments later, and it was a fantastic way to set the stage for my talk on the future!) Great leaders don’t crush ideas - they encourage them.
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28. Daily Inspiration: “Mastering the future? It’s more about awareness than it is about genius!”
2022-08-30 · approximately 2,131 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Mastering the future? It’s more about awareness than it is about genius!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve spent a lot of time with the media over the years, and I was reminded of this on Saturday when I golfed with a fellow — and we realized that I actually wrote a regular column for about a year in a publication his wife managed way back in 1992!
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29. Daily Inspiration: “If you can’t acknowledge your competition, you won’t acknowledge your future!”
2022-09-15 · approximately 1,564 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If you can’t acknowledge your competition, you won’t acknowledge your future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 1989, I was almost fired from my job for a global professional services firm as the result of a magazine cover story about e-mail featuring me. The other day, I noticed that my wife got rid of the mailbox at our front door - and with that, it’s the end of the era!
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30. Daily Inspiration: “A good leader knows how their strategy is performing. A great leader knows how everyone else is doing!”
2022-09-21 · approximately 1,341 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “A good leader knows how their strategy is performing. A great leader knows how everyone else is doing!” - Futurist Jim Carroll For a time in the very early 90s, while making my transition into a career speaking and writing about the future, I spent a few years offering up services on the side as a ‘competitive intelligence professional.’ That came to mind last week as a number of people commented on my post about companies refusing to acknowledge their competitors in their day-to-day actions -
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31. Daily Inspiration: “If the scale of the problem you are trying to solve is bigger than your biggest idea, it’s time to generate an even bigger idea!”
2022-09-27 · approximately 845 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If the scale of the problem you are trying to solve is bigger than your biggest idea, it’s time to generate an even bigger idea!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Tomorrow, I’ll be in Kansas City, speaking for the CEO of Black & Veach at his first leadership retreat. New to his position, he knows that in the context of massive change, his team must not just innovate - they must focus on complete transformation, not only in what they do but how they do it.
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32. Daily Inspiration: Innovation - “When they tell you your idea is too crazy … double down on your crazy!”
2022-10-26 · approximately 1,167 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “When they tell you your idea is too crazy … double down on your crazy!” - Futurist Jim Carroll This is a story that began in 2006 when some conference attendees called out a crazy idea that I was sharing from the stage.
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33. Daily Inspiration: “Milestones are valuable markers of progress made but also reminders of goals yet to be achieved!”
2022-10-27 · approximately 1,882 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Milestones are valuable markers of progress made but also reminders of goals yet to be achieved!” - Futurist Jim Carroll A few photos of my online career from the time I signed on in 1982, through the ’90s and ’00s, up to today’s stage work. hey, I still have hair!
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34. Daily Inspiration: Education and Skills - “65% of kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that do not yet exist!”
2022-11-01 · approximately 888 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “65% of kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that do not yet exist!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s interesting to be a futurist and to live through the very predictions that you made many years ago. That’s something that is occurring right now with my 29-year-old son Willie - today, he works in a career as a drone pilot, a field that did not actually exist when I first made this prediction almost 25 years ago.
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35. Daily Inspiration: “Your attitude should never be the cause of your defeat!”
2022-11-22 · approximately 976 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Your attitude should never be the cause of your defeat!” - Futurist Jim Carroll We often seem to be engineered to doom ourselves to failure because we set out with that idea in mind with many of the things we do! Wouldn’t we do a lot better if we didn’t start out that way?
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36. Daily Inspiration: “Sarcasm: ‘AI can create a better future for all’”
2022-12-06 · approximately 1,944 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Sarcasm: ‘AI can create a better future for all’” - chat.openai.com “Anticipate the unknown, presume the unimaginable, and plan for the unthinkable!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Two artificial intelligence systems - chat.openai.com and Stable Diffusion via beta.dreamstudio.ai - wrote today’s quote and generated the image that was used. I merely added some commentary!
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37. Daily Inspiration: “It used to be about what you know. Now it’s not only about what you know, but how fast you need to know it!”
2022-12-12 · approximately 757 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “It used to be about what you know. Now it’s not only about what you know, but how fast you need to know it!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The acceleration of knowledge - the impact of trend #8 of my “23 Trends for 2023” will continue to be one of the most defining trends that organizations will face in the year to come - particularly as they continue to try to manage the impact of trend #9 - faster work back pushback!
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38. Daily Inspiration: “The best way to cope in a world seemingly gone mad is to double down on dignity!”
2022-12-16 · approximately 1,398 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The best way to cope in a world seemingly gone mad is to double down on dignity!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Sometimes it does seem like the world has gone mad - extremely divisive politics, a rise in hate crimes, absolute emotional terrorism on social networks, attacks on public institutions, and increasing violence. Everyone has a feeling that things are getting out of hand.
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39. Daily Inspiration: “You can’t deny denialism!”
2023-01-04 · approximately 1,755 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “You can’t deny denialism!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Today’s image barely fits into the “Inspiration” theme - my wife REALLY didn’t like the image as I put it together - but that’s the point. We live in perilous, scary times - there are people around you who actually believe the wild conspiracies found in this image below.
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40. Daily Inspiration: “Change resistance is now retiring. Generational acceleration is quickly disrupting!”
2023-01-09 · approximately 808 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Change resistance is now retiring. Generational acceleration is quickly disrupting.
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41. Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
2023-01-11 · approximately 2,412 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Next month will mark 3 years since individuals and organizations began to go through the largest disruption they will ever know. With lockdowns, a staggering loss of human life, work-from-home, and the rapid emergence of a digital lifestyle and e-commerce infrastructure - we all had to learn to adapt quickly.
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42. Daily Inspiration: “The future sure as heck doesn’t belong to those who are slow!”
2023-02-17 · approximately 1,444 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The future sure as heck doesn’t belong to those who are slow!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The CEOs aren’t happy - because they don’t see any compelling sense of urgency with their team. That’s the message from recent surveys from recruiting firms Russell Reynolds and Price Waterhouse.
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43. Daily Inspiration: “Judge your success by what you actually do. Not just by what you plan to do!”
2023-02-28 · approximately 1,668 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Judge your success by what you actually do. Not just by what you plan to do!” - Futurist Jim Carroll You know you’ve got a problem but you don’t fix it.
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44. Daily Inspiration: “If you weren’t paying attention in chemistry class, you d better start paying attention now!”
2023-03-01 · approximately 1,606 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If you weren’t paying attention in chemistry class, you d better start paying attention now!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Actually, I was really good at chemistry - it was just math. It didn’t really catch my interest though.
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45. Daily Inspiration: “The thing about a big future is that it often turns out to be even bigger than you think!”
2023-04-21 · approximately 1,692 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The thing about a big future is that it often turns out to be even bigger than you think!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Welcome to 2023! It’s the year of all AI, all the time!
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46. Daily Inspiration: “Cynicism isn’t wisdom. It’s the key ingredient for the self-sabotage of your future!”
2023-05-02 · approximately 1,399 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Cynicism isn’t wisdom. It’s the key ingredient for the self-sabotage of your future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I finished the original quote!
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47. Daily Inspiration: “If success is a team sport, partnership is the playbook!”
2023-05-24 · approximately 1,071 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If success is a team sport, partnership is the playbook!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Over my 30-year career, I’ve built relationships with some of the most respected speaker bureaus in the world. The result is that the same agents who represent me also book various global icons, politicians, and business leaders into corporate and association events - such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George Bush, Magic Johnson, Anderson Cooper, and Richard Branson.
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48. Daily Inspiration: Innovation and Culture - “Give yourself permission to try new things!
2023-10-23 · approximately 2,842 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Give yourself permission to try new things!” - Futurist Jim Carroll My wife and I attended the Celebration of Life for the father of one of our good friends at our ski chalet, Cedric Gyles. Although we only briefly met the man once, we knew that the relationship that our good friend John had with his dad was special and that this was a significant loss; we thought it important that we show John and his wife Jane our respect by attending.
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49. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #1 - “Ignore the prattle of the anti-futurists!”
2023-11-27 · approximately 1,227 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Ignore the prattle of the anti-futurists!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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50. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #3 - “Be furiously focused, but gloriously distracted!”
2023-11-29 · approximately 1,020 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Be furiously focused, but gloriously distracted!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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51. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #5 - “Elevate your enthusiasm!”
2023-12-01 · approximately 1,559 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Elevate your enthusiasm!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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52. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #13 - “Be prepared to launch”
2023-12-13 · approximately 1,402 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Be prepared to launch” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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53. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #16 - “Fail at fewer first impression failures”
2023-12-18 · approximately 2,010 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Fail at fewer first impression failures” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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54. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #17 - “Invest in kindness”
2023-12-19 · approximately 1,978 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Invest in kindness” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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55. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #20 - “Honor every learning curve”
2023-12-22 · approximately 1,693 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Honor every learning curve” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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56. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #22 - “Stay focused on the ’BIG’ future”
2023-12-28 · approximately 1,594 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Stay focused on the ’BIG’ future” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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57. Daily Inspiration: “10 Great Words for 2024”
2024-01-02 · approximately 1,883 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “10 Great Words for 2024 - Explore, Imagine, Embrace, Challenge, Strategize, Create, Defy, Avoid, Persevere, Do!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Happy New Year! Keeping up with a tradition that began back in 2006 - starting each year with ‘10 Great Words’ - here’s what I’m thinking for 2024!
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58. Daily Inspiration: Courage - “The best way to challenge your fears is through involvement!”
2024-01-08 · approximately 1,391 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The best way to challenge your fears is through involvement!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Skill? It’s that thing you develop by trying to do that thing you’ve never done before.
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59. Daily Inspiration: Healthcare and the Future - “You can always look forward by looking back!”
2024-01-15 · approximately 2,944 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “You can always look forward by looking back!” - Futurist Jim Carroll “16 years ago, Futurist Jim Carroll spoke in Washington DC on the future of healthcare. He challenged the audience to think about what the world of healthcare would look like one day in the future - picking an arbitrary, random date of January 15, 2020.
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60. Daily Inspiration: Frogs in Texas - “Have you ever thought that perhaps you have been looking in the wrong direction, at the wrong time, at the wrong threat?”
2024-03-04 · approximately 1,592 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Have you ever thought that perhaps you have been looking in the wrong direction, at the wrong time, at the wrong threat?” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s book week! Each day, a post involving one of my books!
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61. Daily Inspiration: Initiative & Success - “Seize every moment of magic!”
2024-03-05 · approximately 1,831 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Seize every moment of magic!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s book week! Each day, a post involving one of my books!
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62. Daily Inspiration: Skills & Reinvention - “Every failure is in reality a critical step in a successful reinvention!”
2024-03-06 · approximately 1,782 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Every failure is in reality a critical step in a successful reinvention!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s book week! Each day, a post involving one of my books!
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63. Daily Inspiration: Personal Growth - “Each and every day, you have the opportunity to live up to your full potential!”
2024-03-07 · approximately 1,283 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Each and every day, you have the opportunity to live up to your full potential!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s book week. Each day this week, Futurist Jim Carroll has been featuring one of his books.
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64. Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #13 - “Be prepared to launch”
2024-08-21 · approximately 1,402 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Be prepared to launch” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course.
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65. Daily Inspiration - “The only thing limiting your opportunity is the limitation in your inspiration!”
2024-08-26 · approximately 1,429 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “The only thing limiting your opportunity is the limitation of your inspiration!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve been writing these posts each workday since August 2016. That’s a lot of ‘Daily Inspirations.’ For today’s post, I fed 7 years’ worth of these posts into ChatGPT and asked it to list for me ‘101 Ideas for Accelerating Your Innovation & Creativity’ that it could find in the document.
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66. Daily Inspiration: Trends & Timing - “Recognize that every major trend first involves huge short-term risk but is often eventually followed by a massive upside!”
2024-08-30 · approximately 2,387 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Recognize that every major trend first involves huge short-term risk but is often eventually followed by a massive upside!” - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most important things to realize about any future trend is that it can be pretty difficult to achieve any opportunity from it until it matures. That means that in the short term, it can be pretty painful - but in the long pretty, significantly wonderful.
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67. Daily Inspiration: Innovation Leadership - “Move from why it can’t be done to why it should be done!”
2024-09-06 · approximately 1,147 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Move from why it can’t be done to why it should be done!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Shift happens. Do you?
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68. Daily Inspiration: Trends & Tomorrow - “If you aren’t amazed by all the amazing trends that are unfolding around you, you’re watching the wrong future!”
2024-09-11 · approximately 1,280 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “If you aren’t amazed by all the amazing trends that are unfolding around you, you’re watching the wrong future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The future happens fast! The thing about being a futurist is that you know that certain things are inevitable - much of it just has to do with the timing.
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69. Daily Inspiration - Creativity & Innovation : “See differently and you’ll innovate brilliantly!”
2024-10-07 · approximately 2,576 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “See differently and you’ll innovate brilliantly!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Most people see a ketchup bottle. Creative people see trends & innovation!
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70. Daily Inspiration: Policing & AI - “It’s the unknown crime that we can’t yet imagine that we should be worried about!”
2024-11-14 · approximately 1,296 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “It’s the unknown crime that we can’t yet imagine that we should be worried about!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Later today, I’ll be doing a talk for the senior leadership team of the RCMP - that’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - on the future impact of AI. I’ll have a few hundred police and civilian officials in the room and will take a pretty broad but intense look into the future.
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71. Daily Inspiration: 25 Things for 2025 - #2 “Follow the science”
2024-11-26 · approximately 1,170 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Follow the science” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on how to align to a faster future. He intends for the series to provide valuable guidance to others eager to learn how to move through a year that promises to be volatile, unpredictable
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72. Daily Inspiration: 25 Things for 2025 – #11: “Always remember that the future is not just a destination, it’s a navigational beacon!”
2024-12-09 · approximately 1,169 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Always remember that the future is not just a destination, it’s a navigational beacon!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on how to align to a faster future. He intends for the series to provide valuable guidance to others eager to learn ho
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73. Daily Inspiration: 25 Things for 2025 – #12: “Align to reality. Ignore the hype!”
2024-12-10 · approximately 1,854 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Align to reality. Ignore the hype!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on how to align to a faster future.
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74. Daily Inspiration: 25 Things for 2025 – #24: “Be spectacularly misfocused and gloriously distracted!”
2024-12-31 · approximately 2,387 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Be spectacularly misfocused and gloriously distracted!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on how to align to a faster future. He intends for the series to provide valuable guidance to others eager to learn how to move through a year that pr
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75. Daily Inspiration: Global politics and trade - “A “blast from the past from 2009 - “Canada announces end of economic relationship with US, & a bold new strategy to 2020”
2025-01-22 · approximately 1,948 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Sometimes, satire can become all too real” - Futurist Jim Carroll There’s no doubt that there might not be a lot of logical, rational stuff going on in the next few years. That’s why I keep stressing that volatility is the new normal.
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76. Daily Inspiration: The Future of Insurance: “New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking”
2025-02-10 · approximately 2,502 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In just about a month, I’ll head to California to headline a major insurance conference.
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77. Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration - “While others wait for normal, the bold invent what’s next.”
2025-05-09 · approximately 2,027 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “While others wait for normal, the bold invent what’s next.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Know what you don’t know about tomorrow. Find out what you need to know.
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78. Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – “You can escape the mediocrity you once embraced, but will you ever fully eradicate it?”
2025-05-23 · approximately 3,874 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “You can escape the mediocrity you once embraced, but will you ever fully eradicate it?” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s been a wild voyage bringing these two books to print in just a few months, and I’m loving the feedback and comments from those who have picked up copies. (Are you in?
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79. Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – “There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!”
2025-05-29 · approximately 3,803 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!” = Futurist Jim Carroll One of my fellow futurists recently included this line in a post I read - “We should be pulling more photons from the sun.” He wrote it as an observation when he was flying into an American city, and saw an absolute dearth of solar panels on the roofs of homes and buildings.
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80. Decoding Tomorrow: 30 Megatrends - #16 Material Science Breakthroughs: “We are moving beyond static objects to a world of living materials that heal, think, and reshape our reality.”
2025-07-17 · approximately 1,915 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “We are moving beyond static objects to a world of living materials that heal, think, and reshape our reality.” - Futurist Jim Carroll (Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found.
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81. Decoding Tomorrow: 30 Megatrends - #27 America’s Retreat “By abandoning its R&D leadership, the US is ceding the future of global innovation and success to its competitors.”
2025-08-08 · approximately 3,082 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “By abandoning its R&D leadership, the US is ceding the future of global innovation and success to its competitors.” - Futurist Jim Carroll (Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found.
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82. What Comes Next with the Decline of an Empire - Part 2 (“Revisiting my 2017 Predictions”)
2025-08-11 · approximately 2,117 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: It pains me to write this, but it’s pretty clear the United States is accelerating its retreat from global R&D leadership through unprecedented 2025 policy reversals and funding cuts in critical sectors like biomedical science, climate technology, and electric vehicles. In stark contrast, competitor nations are executing ambitious, state-directed industrial strategies to capture dominance in future technologies, fundamentally redrawing the global innovation map and challenging America’s long-hel
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83. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #1 Manufacturing - “The most valuable part of a modern manufacturing operation is the part you can’t see: the algorithms that optimize flow, the data that predicts failure, and the agility that makes the entire process intelligent.”
2025-09-23 · approximately 2,221 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The most valuable part of a modern manufacturing operation is the part you can’t see: the algorithms that optimize flow, the data that predicts failure, and the agility that makes the entire process intelligent.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In September 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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84. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #2 Agriculture- The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow.”
2025-09-24 · approximately 2,882 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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85. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #4 Healthcare: “Yesterday’s medical breakthrough was a new drug. Tomorrow’s breakthrough is the intelligent algorithm that designs the drug, the connected device that delivers it, and the data stream that confirms it worked.”
2025-09-26 · approximately 2,793 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Yesterday’s medical breakthrough was a new drug. Tomorrow’s breakthrough is the intelligent algorithm that designs the drug, the connected device that delivers it, and the data stream that confirms it worked.”- Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog.
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86. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #5 Construction: “For centuries, construction was about brute force. The next century will be about intelligence—smart materials, robotic precision, and data-driven design.”
2025-09-29 · approximately 2,213 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “For centuries, construction was about brute force. The next century will be about intelligence—smart materials, robotic precision, and data-driven design.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog.
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87. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #6 Insurance - “The future of insurance will be written by those who move from predicting the past to architecting the future, transforming risk from a liability to be avoided into an asset to be managed.”
2025-09-30 · approximately 2,162 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The future of insurance will be written by those who move from predicting the past to architecting the future, transforming risk from a liability to be avoided into an asset to be managed.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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88. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #7 Retail - “Retail success is no longer about moving boxes from a warehouse to a shelf. It’s about moving an experience from a brand story into a customer’s life.”
2025-10-01 · approximately 2,091 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “Retail success is no longer about moving boxes from a warehouse to a shelf. It’s about moving an experience from a brand story into a customer’s life.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog.
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89. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #8 Banking & Financial Services - “For centuries, finance was defined by stability and caution. For the next decade, it will be defined by velocity and agility. The slow will not survive.”
2025-10-02 · approximately 2,333 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “For centuries, finance was defined by stability and caution. For the next decade, it will be defined by velocity and agility.
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90. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #9 Auto & Transportation - “A decade from now, the automotive landscape will be dominated by companies that treated 2025’s reality check not as a crisis, but as the greatest competitive opportunity they ever witnessed!”
2025-10-06 · approximately 2,649 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “A decade from now, the automotive landscape will be dominated by companies that treated 2025’s reality check not as a crisis, but as the greatest competitive opportunity they ever witnessed!” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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91. Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: Summary - “The way forward is not to wait for tomorrow, but to create it today.”
2025-10-14 · approximately 1,366 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The way forward is not to wait for tomorrow, but to create it today.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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92. Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #11 “To move fast, you don’t need more gas. You need less drag.”
2025-12-04 · approximately 1,751 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “To move fast, you don’t need more gas. You need less drag.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Get rid of the anchors that are keeping you back.
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93. Daily Inspiration: “Sometimes, the hardest brake to press is the one on your own ambition.”
2026-01-06 · approximately 855 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Sometimes, the hardest brake to press is the one on your own ambition.” – Futurist Jim Carroll In the world of leadership and innovation, we are wired for speed. We obsess over acceleration, growth, and breaking barriers.
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94. Decoding Tomorrow: Daily Inspiration - Automotive Trends: “The road to the future can often be found in the missteps of the past!”
2026-02-13 · approximately 1,022 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The road to the future can often be found in the missteps of the past!” - Futurist Jim Carroll So, is there anything going on in the automotive industry right now? That was the question, and here is the image I used with it, when I spoke at an automotive dealer conference earlier this week.
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95. What Goes Into a Highly Customized Keynote? THIS!
2026-02-13 · approximately 899 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: As someone who has been a main-stage keynote speaker for 33 years, one of my points of pride has long been the degree of customization that I’ve put into my work. I’ve delivered massively customized keynotes for organizations in the agriculture, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, construction, and other sectors.
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96. Decoding Tomorrow: The Infinite Pivot Series - #36 “The secret to the art of the pivot? There is no finish line!”
2026-05-15 · approximately 1,561 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “The secret to the art of the pivot? There is no finish line!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy.
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97. Daily Inspiration: “Challenge your assumptions. Do the actual work. Never stop looking forward.”
2026-06-05 · approximately 684 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “Challenge your assumptions. Do the actual work.
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98. The Future, Mapped: 30 Years of Thinking About What Comes Next
2026-06-19 · approximately 524 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: I’ve been a futurist for more than 30 years. In that time I’ve written close to 5,000 posts, delivered over 2,000 keynotes, and tracked the trends that quietly reshape industries long before they make the headlines.
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99. Daily Inspiration: ""A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you’re getting more Canadian cowbell.”
2026-07-01 · approximately 2,209 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive. It is especially important archaeologically because WordPress classified it only as Daily Inspiration, making it easy to miss in category-based recovery.
What is in the original: “A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you’re getting more Canadian cowbell.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Happy Canada Day!
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100. Daily Inspiration: “If your entire strategy is based on the assumption that global dominance is a birthright, you are already obsolete.”
2026-07-16 · approximately 1,206 words
Selected because it contains substantial original thinking and connects to recurring themes in Jim’s foresight archive.
What is in the original: “If your entire strategy is based on the assumption that global dominance is a birthright, you are already obsolete.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Yes, a little bit of AI magic for the photo… anyways…’ Let’s talk about “the elephant in the room: reality is unforgiving.