Futurist Jim Carroll“If you want to be part of what’s next, leave your nostalgia at the door" - Futurist Jim Carroll
You need to commit.
Yesterday, or tomorrow?
I know where I'm going. It's in my job description.
Think about it - at this very moment, we’re witnessing a battle playing out everywhere—across boardrooms, governments, industries, at parties and sports events and family get togethers. The battle is being driven by a vainglorious and ill-fated desire to try to take things back to where they were - not to where they are going.
And one of the most important things you need. to do is make your decision - and stick to it - as to where you are headed.
It's a battle of vision vs. nostalgia.
Of strategy vs. sentimentality.
Of building what’s next vs. longing for what was.
It's really not a fair fight.
We’ve reached a point where the familiar is failing - old industries are dying, old skills are becoming irrelevant, old knowledge is going out of date, old jobs are disappearing. In the context of that? New industries, skills, knowledge, jobs - and new opportunities.
It's called disruptive change, and it is very real. The new rule is that older stable ideas aren’t stable. Playbooks that were once reliable aren’t playable. Assumptions and strategies that served the past no longer serve the future. The fact is, the world’s moving faster than our old systems were designed to handle.
And yet—some still cling to the comfort of past success like it’s a security blanket.
But nostalgia is not a strategy. It’s a sedative.
Recessions and disruptions are not the time to shrink your ambition.
They’re a time to reshape it.
So ask yourself: Are you holding onto what used to work—or reaching for what could?
The future doesn’t wait for comfort.
It rewards courage.
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