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Glasul Bisericii este veşnic şi statornic, se repetă şi este auzit de veacuri spunând: „Biruinţa finală aparţine binelui!” Biserica nu va înceta să-i mustre cu dragoste pe oameni şi să-i călăuzească prin cele mai potrivite mijloace pe calea desăvârşirii 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/h53x3 👈 #Înţelept #Bis­er­icaLuiHris­tos #dragoste #Dumnezeu #idealuri #Mesia #Omilii #Omulideal #optimism #Pocăinţa #Profet #SfântulNicolaeVelimirovici
https://c.aparatorul.md/h53x3

I'm sitting here absolutely bawling, tears flowing down my face, as I watch The Kings Affection in background. It's a Netflix k-drama, for those that don't know it. Korea is lately putting out some brilliant works.

I'm only about 3/4 through and won't spoil anything by going onto detail. I see homages to Twelfth Night and Roshomon. It's nicely structured.

It's a good love story, but also a recurring theme of some of these Korean dramas is such an honor and dignity and hope through real adversity. It's like the kind of television I watched and plays I worked on even, like Camelot and especially A Man for All Seasons, which was very formative for me.

Things that understand the struggle between Good and Evil is important to see and engage, even where nuance makes the lines between them blurred. These Korean works seem to be targeting an intelligent audience who wants to think. I love the genre, and this one is a good example.

I think at some point the US decided that cynicism sells better than promise, and we have done well in exposing the many ways that society fails people, yet in the process we have somehow managed to deliver a sense of hopelessness and fatalism that is itself a cancer, suggesting the individual might as well just go for what's theirs. I love that these writers are still portraying another path.

#TheKingsAffecton #kdrama #kdramas #love #hope #optimism #adversity #TwelfthNight #Roshomon #honor #society #philosophy #television #netflix

I'm sitting here absolutely bawling, tears flowing down my face, as I watch The Kings Affection in background. It's a Netflix k-drama, for those that don't know it. Korea is lately putting out some brilliant works.

I'm only about 3/4 through and won't spoil anything by going onto detail. I see homages to Twelfth Night and Roshomon. It's nicely structured.

It's a good love story, but also a recurring theme of some of these Korean dramas is such an honor and dignity and hope through real adversity. It's like the kind of television I watched and plays I worked on even, like Camelot and especially A Man for All Seasons, which was very formative for me.

Things that understand the struggle between Good and Evil is important to see and engage, even where nuance makes the lines between them blurred. These Korean works seem to be targeting an intelligent audience who wants to think. I love the genre, and this one is a good example.

I think at some point the US decided that cynicism sells better than promise, and we have done well in exposing the many ways that society fails people, yet in the process we have somehow managed to deliver a sense of hopelessness and fatalism that is itself a cancer, suggesting the individual might as well just go for what's theirs. I love that these writers are still portraying another path.

#TheKingsAffecton #kdrama #kdramas #love #hope #optimism #adversity #TwelfthNight #Roshomon #honor #society #philosophy #television #netflix

I'm sitting here absolutely bawling, tears flowing down my face, as I watch The Kings Affection in background. It's a Netflix k-drama, for those that don't know it. Korea is lately putting out some brilliant works.

I'm only about 3/4 through and won't spoil anything by going onto detail. I see homages to Twelfth Night and Roshomon. It's nicely structured.

It's a good love story, but also a recurring theme of some of these Korean dramas is such an honor and dignity and hope through real adversity. It's like the kind of television I watched and plays I worked on even, like Camelot and especially A Man for All Seasons, which was very formative for me.

Things that understand the struggle between Good and Evil is important to see and engage, even where nuance makes the lines between them blurred. These Korean works seem to be targeting an intelligent audience who wants to think. I love the genre, and this one is a good example.

I think at some point the US decided that cynicism sells better than promise, and we have done well in exposing the many ways that society fails people, yet in the process we have somehow managed to deliver a sense of hopelessness and fatalism that is itself a cancer, suggesting the individual might as well just go for what's theirs. I love that these writers are still portraying another path.

#TheKingsAffecton #kdrama #kdramas #love #hope #optimism #adversity #TwelfthNight #Roshomon #honor #society #philosophy #television #netflix

I'm sitting here absolutely bawling, tears flowing down my face, as I watch The Kings Affection in background. It's a Netflix k-drama, for those that don't know it. Korea is lately putting out some brilliant works.

I'm only about 3/4 through and won't spoil anything by going onto detail. I see homages to Twelfth Night and Roshomon. It's nicely structured.

It's a good love story, but also a recurring theme of some of these Korean dramas is such an honor and dignity and hope through real adversity. It's like the kind of television I watched and plays I worked on even, like Camelot and especially A Man for All Seasons, which was very formative for me.

Things that understand the struggle between Good and Evil is important to see and engage, even where nuance makes the lines between them blurred. These Korean works seem to be targeting an intelligent audience who wants to think. I love the genre, and this one is a good example.

I think at some point the US decided that cynicism sells better than promise, and we have done well in exposing the many ways that society fails people, yet in the process we have somehow managed to deliver a sense of hopelessness and fatalism that is itself a cancer, suggesting the individual might as well just go for what's theirs. I love that these writers are still portraying another path.

#TheKingsAffecton #kdrama #kdramas #love #hope #optimism #adversity #TwelfthNight #Roshomon #honor #society #philosophy #television #netflix

Risk it all. Be extraordinary (aka The tulip tree)

In the front yard of my home is a tree I call the tulip tree. It’s a yellow bird magnolia, and for a brief moment in the spring, each blossom turns into what looks like a yellow tulip. It might last a few days, maybe a week or more depending on the weather, but when it happens, the whole tree explodes like Amsterdam’s best, a tulip festival all its own, hundreds of bulbs showing out like silky petaled sunshine. 

When I bought my home it was in the fall, and the tree had returned to its subdued self. There was no mention during the home showing of the surprise I was in for in spring, when the tree decides that it has had enough of the ordinary, that it’s time to risk it all and be extraordinary. 

In this, it’s not unlike other magnolias (and tulips, too), which are always among the earliest show-ers, at least here in the Midwest. “Precocious bloomers,” they’re sometimes called, putting out their flowers before the pollinator competition. On crisp spring mornings, you can see their furry buds swelling, just waiting to release their tulips on a warm day, before even the final frost date has passed. An early temperature spike and a freezing night can send the flowers falling shortly after they appear, a temporary carpet of yellow among the still-greening grass. 

I’d never seen or heard of such a tree until it loudly announced itself, but magnolias as a whole are not uncommon. They are said to symbolize both beauty and resilience, a certain optimism that despite it all, it’s still worth showing out in this life. We all have something to offer, even something to delight, be it as simple as a laugh, or a capacity for love.  

My home is on a fairly busy street, but this is also something I didn’t realize before buying it. The showings were on a weekday, scheduled perfectly between the morning and evening commute so that the traffic was subdued. 

I suppose the turning lane should have cued me that this was no ordinary residential street. When I moved in for good, I was surprised to see a thousand cars a day go by, though ultimately it wouldn’t have changed my mind about the home.

And glad that it didn’t. During this brief week in early spring — the tulip tree’s week — I’ll stand on my front walkway steps and smell them as the cars pass by and see a middle-aged man with his nose in a flower, a slightly sweet scent that if they have their windows down they might even catch on the breeze as they speed by and wonder, what was that? As do many of those walking past who often pause, like me, to marvel, discuss it with their children, dog, or other walking companion. 

As you get older, you begin to appreciate not the things that you might yet acquire but those which are already there, that come easy, and to some extent, that always were there, things you never had to work hard to cultivate or acquire in the first place. A little water in the early days and during the dry spells, but mostly just letting life do its work. Trees. Animals. Family. Friends. Flowers. The cars going by, they won’t always.

https://www.europesays.com/dk/84386/ Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy Pill Revenue Doubles Forecasts, Fuelling Optimism Amid Mixed Signals #amid #Doubles #forecasts #Fuelling #Nordisk’s #novo #NovoNordisk #Optimism #pill #revenue #Wegovy

Musical Interlude: My excitement over the house inspection going well today (I mean, even the inspector was impressed with the house's condition, and recommended I snap it up) brought this peppy optimistic song to mind. This also rang through my mind after my first interview at the current job...it's my anthem for happy times.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," performed by Natalie Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaoKL1Ei0c

#MusicalInterlude #NatalieCole #PopMusic #HappyMusic #Optimism #IMayHaveAHomeAtLast

Musical Interlude: My excitement over the house inspection going well today (I mean, even the inspector was impressed with the house's condition, and recommended I snap it up) brought this peppy optimistic song to mind. This also rang through my mind after my first interview at the current job...it's my anthem for happy times.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," performed by Natalie Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaoKL1Ei0c

#MusicalInterlude #NatalieCole #PopMusic #HappyMusic #Optimism #IMayHaveAHomeAtLast

Musical Interlude: My excitement over the house inspection going well today (I mean, even the inspector was impressed with the house's condition, and recommended I snap it up) brought this peppy optimistic song to mind. This also rang through my mind after my first interview at the current job...it's my anthem for happy times.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," performed by Natalie Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaoKL1Ei0c

#MusicalInterlude #NatalieCole #PopMusic #HappyMusic #Optimism #IMayHaveAHomeAtLast

Musical Interlude: My excitement over the house inspection going well today (I mean, even the inspector was impressed with the house's condition, and recommended I snap it up) brought this peppy optimistic song to mind. This also rang through my mind after my first interview at the current job...it's my anthem for happy times.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," performed by Natalie Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaoKL1Ei0c

#MusicalInterlude #NatalieCole #PopMusic #HappyMusic #Optimism #IMayHaveAHomeAtLast

Musical Interlude: My excitement over the house inspection going well today (I mean, even the inspector was impressed with the house's condition, and recommended I snap it up) brought this peppy optimistic song to mind. This also rang through my mind after my first interview at the current job...it's my anthem for happy times.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," performed by Natalie Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaoKL1Ei0c

#MusicalInterlude #NatalieCole #PopMusic #HappyMusic #Optimism #IMayHaveAHomeAtLast

https://www.europesays.com/dk/82519/ Novo Nordisk Combines Direct-to-Patient Service with Analyst Optimism in Obesity Fight #analyst #Combines #DirectToPatient #Fight #Hedgeye #Nordisk #novo #NovoNordisk #Obesity #Optimism #Service

...நாம் இரக்கத்தைப் பெறவும், ஏற்ற சமயத்தில் சகாயஞ்செய்யுங்கிருபையை அடையவும், தைரியமாய்க் கிருபாசனத்தண்டையிலே சேரக்கடவோம்
📖எபிரெயர் 4:16
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தேவன் உங்களுக்காகக் காத்திருக்கிறார். நீங்கள் கர்த்தரை நெருங்கி, அவருடைய கிருபையில் இளைப்பாறுங்கள்.
தேவனை நாடி, அவருடைய பிரசன்னத்தில் மகிழுங்கள்.
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#அனுதினநம்பிக்கையின்பனித்துளி #இன்றையவேதவசனம் #DailyDewsofHope #DailyDevotion #bibleverse #faith #hope #optimism
post.dewsofhope.ca/131t

Optimismul nu înseamnă să ignori realitatea, ci să crezi că viitorul poate fi construit diferit. ✨

„Partea plină a paharului“ este o carte despre speranță lucidă, curaj și puterea de a merge înainte chiar și în vremuri dificile.

🔗 https://buff.ly/FNqMiCx
#PaginaDePsihologie #Optimism #DezvoltarePersonală #Psihologie #StareDeBine

Norm Eisen wrote that even after a rotten court decision in Virginia:
"we could still see a one or two seat pro-democracy pickup in that state."
#politics #optimism #KeepHopeAlive

Norm Eisen wrote that even after a rotten court decision in Virginia:
"we could still see a one or two seat pro-democracy pickup in that state."
#politics #optimism #KeepHopeAlive

Norm Eisen wrote that even after a rotten court decision in Virginia:
"we could still see a one or two seat pro-democracy pickup in that state."
#politics #optimism #KeepHopeAlive

Norm Eisen wrote that even after a rotten court decision in Virginia:
"we could still see a one or two seat pro-democracy pickup in that state."
#politics #optimism #KeepHopeAlive

So, I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest by invoking #Tolkien, and yet, here I go. Stay with me.

in #LOTR, both book and movies, in my head, Sam was always the real hero. He refuses to let light and goodness fail, even if it means dragging the "hero" to his destiny.

"... how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." he says. "...there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

I tell you that story to remind you that we are all Sam. Be Sam.

The darkness is not forever. The darkness is not insurmountable.

Dawn is coming, I feel it's traces on the horizon. There will be much cleanup, but dawn is coming. Hold tight to thoughts of the light.

I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in dawn.

#peptalk #optimism #LoveYall #BeSam

So, I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest by invoking #Tolkien, and yet, here I go. Stay with me.

in #LOTR, both book and movies, in my head, Sam was always the real hero. He refuses to let light and goodness fail, even if it means dragging the "hero" to his destiny.

"... how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." he says. "...there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

I tell you that story to remind you that we are all Sam. Be Sam.

The darkness is not forever. The darkness is not insurmountable.

Dawn is coming, I feel it's traces on the horizon. There will be much cleanup, but dawn is coming. Hold tight to thoughts of the light.

I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in dawn.

#peptalk #optimism #LoveYall #BeSam

So, I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest by invoking #Tolkien, and yet, here I go. Stay with me.

in #LOTR, both book and movies, in my head, Sam was always the real hero. He refuses to let light and goodness fail, even if it means dragging the "hero" to his destiny.

"... how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." he says. "...there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

I tell you that story to remind you that we are all Sam. Be Sam.

The darkness is not forever. The darkness is not insurmountable.

Dawn is coming, I feel it's traces on the horizon. There will be much cleanup, but dawn is coming. Hold tight to thoughts of the light.

I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in dawn.

#peptalk #optimism #LoveYall #BeSam

So, I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest by invoking #Tolkien, and yet, here I go. Stay with me.

in #LOTR, both book and movies, in my head, Sam was always the real hero. He refuses to let light and goodness fail, even if it means dragging the "hero" to his destiny.

"... how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." he says. "...there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

I tell you that story to remind you that we are all Sam. Be Sam.

The darkness is not forever. The darkness is not insurmountable.

Dawn is coming, I feel it's traces on the horizon. There will be much cleanup, but dawn is coming. Hold tight to thoughts of the light.

I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in dawn.

#peptalk #optimism #LoveYall #BeSam

So, I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest by invoking #Tolkien, and yet, here I go. Stay with me.

in #LOTR, both book and movies, in my head, Sam was always the real hero. He refuses to let light and goodness fail, even if it means dragging the "hero" to his destiny.

"... how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." he says. "...there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

I tell you that story to remind you that we are all Sam. Be Sam.

The darkness is not forever. The darkness is not insurmountable.

Dawn is coming, I feel it's traces on the horizon. There will be much cleanup, but dawn is coming. Hold tight to thoughts of the light.

I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in dawn.

#peptalk #optimism #LoveYall #BeSam

@Powerfromspace1 If you want to learn about #optimism that actually works, I recommend the book “Liftoff” https://5minutebooksummary.com/liftoff-summary/ Or if you're more interested in statistics https://www.spacex.com/launches

@Powerfromspace1 If you want to learn about #optimism that actually works, I recommend the book “Liftoff” https://5minutebooksummary.com/liftoff-summary/ Or if you're more interested in statistics https://www.spacex.com/launches

@Powerfromspace1 If you want to learn about #optimism that actually works, I recommend the book “Liftoff” https://5minutebooksummary.com/liftoff-summary/ Or if you're more interested in statistics https://www.spacex.com/launches

@Powerfromspace1 If you want to learn about #optimism that actually works, I recommend the book “Liftoff” https://5minutebooksummary.com/liftoff-summary/ Or if you're more interested in statistics https://www.spacex.com/launches

@Powerfromspace1 If you want to learn about #optimism that actually works, I recommend the book “Liftoff” https://5minutebooksummary.com/liftoff-summary/ Or if you're more interested in statistics https://www.spacex.com/launches

https://www.europesays.com/iran/102216/ Trump expresses optimism a deal with Iran could be reached soon #agreement #bloockade #country #deal #dhnd #ForeignMinistrySpokesperson #Hormuz #hour #Iran #IranWar #Iran'sForeignMinister #MiddleEast #NuclearProgram #NuclearWeapon #OngoingWar #optimism #PeaceProposal #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentTrump #proposal #reporter #ship #SocialMedium #strait #StraitOfHormuz #TahirAndrabi #trump #USBlockade #WarInIran #WhiteHouse

Good morning, despite all the difficulties and a life full of hardship... ☕☀️
Every day, we try to live and find a new glint of hope amidst the ruins. This morning coffee is the humble beginning of a new battle for survival.
https://chuffed.org/project/168658-please-help-the-muna-family-survive-in-gaza
#GoodMorning #Gaza #Hope #Optimism #Coffee #WeLoveLife #FromAmongTheRubbish #English #Survival #Resistance #helpgaza
#gazaverified #SupportGaza #GazaRelief #DonateToGaza #MutualAid #HumanitarianAid #SupportPalestine #EmergencyAppeal #GazaUnderAttack

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.

“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.

“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#GiftLink #GiftArticle

#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.

“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#GiftLink #GiftArticle

#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.

“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#GiftLink #GiftArticle

#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.

“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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A quotation from James Howell

If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

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A quotation from James Howell

If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83714/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #disaster #getby #makedo #optimism #proverb #silverlining

A quotation from James Howell

If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83714/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #disaster #getby #makedo #optimism #proverb #silverlining

A quotation from James Howell

If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83714/

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‘Optimism’ by A. Victor Ratcliffe

#poem #poetry #english #literature #optimism

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/a-victor-ratcliffe-poem-optimism

‘Optimism’ by A. Victor Ratcliffe

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https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/a-victor-ratcliffe-poem-optimism

‘Optimism’ by A. Victor Ratcliffe

#poem #poetry #english #literature #optimism

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/a-victor-ratcliffe-poem-optimism

‘Optimism’ by A. Victor Ratcliffe

#poem #poetry #english #literature #optimism

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/a-victor-ratcliffe-poem-optimism