At this very moment, someone somewhere is busy inventing something that will be so common in but 10 short years that you simply won’t know how you lived without it!
— Jim Carroll
Original 2021 statement: Right now, someone has the perfect idea in mind to put your business model into a death spiral - and you might not notice till it is too late
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: “At this very moment, someone somewhere is busy inventing something that will be so common in but 10 short years that you simply won’t know how you lived without it!”” (February 2022)
Need to get inspired for the future? Head on over to my post, ‘101 Things We Know About Our Future’ - An Esoteric List of Things That Are Happening Now and Next! - it’s right here . As I note in that post: My mind all too often races with ideas; I think too much. The busy activities in my head lead me to regularly scribble down lots of thoughts about the world around me. Overall, as a futurist, it’s a remarkable time to be alive – and with that in mind, here’s a list that I’ve accumulated as to ‘101 things we know about our future.’
There is someone in a garage at this very moment with a really great idea that will become a billion-dollar company
From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)
As I close out this series of 23 Trends for 2023, I’ve been thinking long and hard as to what the final, all-encompassing trend should be; to be honest, I’ve had several. But they’ve all had a common theme - all of us finally have the chance to look forward to what’s next , rather than just concentrating right now on what we need to do to get through. In a conference call with a client the other day, I was given a gift when he mentioned that in his mind, they weres finally able to move away from triage - fast, quick steps to simply survive - to thinking about their future again. That’s it!
If you think about it, for a time, the future fell off the table; we were all too busy thinking about how to get through the next month, let alone the next 5 or 10 years. And yet, in the last several months, I’ve noticed during my calls about upcoming events with several CEOs that a key theme has emerged - perhaps we are through the worst, the thinking goes, and so, it’s time to start looking to the future again.
With that in mind, here’s an older post I wrote some years ago, ’ 101 Things We Know About Our Future’ - An Esoteric List of Things That Are Happening Now and Next! ’ It provides some food for thought on what we might be thinking about as we move from triage to tomorrow!
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: “At this very moment, someone somewhere is busy inventing something that will be so common in but 10 short years that you simply won’t know how you lived without it!”
Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”