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Adaptability is a muscle. Every challenge is a chance to grow stronger, think differently, and move forward with courage. Honored to share more with Arizona Horizons on Arizona PBS in Phoenix. https://zurl.co/wLTNY #Adaptability #GrowthMindset #Resilience #DisarmYourLimits

Idiot Business 4d ago

Introducing 'AdaptaPillows' – personalized pillows that physically shift & contort throughout the night to match your dreamscapes! Finally, a pillow that truly understands your subconscious. (Patent pending, probably.) #Adaptability #SleepTech #SoBadItsGood
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Futurist Jim Carroll 5d ago

"Anyone can find an excuse to stand still. Make it your life's work to find the reasons to move." - Futurist Jim Carroll

As a species, it seems we are engineered to stand still (or move back) rather than forward.

I was thinking about that yesterday — how easy it is to make excuses to avoid taking action.

I certainly do this, even though I often feature this issue when I’m speaking to my clients about innovation.

Right now, I’ve spent a few weeks — literally — getting ready to launch another blog series. This one is called: “36 LESSONS: THE ART OF THE INFINITE CAREER PIVOT.” It’s based on a list I wrote last November on the 35th anniversary of leaving the corporate workforce, starting my own company, and working from home.

I didn't write it beyond the original list. Other projects got in the way; client projects surfaced; I kept looking for the right design for the daily posts as well as the website that would go with it; my spinal injury intervened; and most importantly, family time, including with my new grandson, took over.

And over the last few months, I’ve managed to find every excuse in the book not to get going. Heck, I was going to start it today, but, well, I didn’t.

So here we are! I’m writing a post about making excuses because I needed an excuse as to why I have yet to get it going!

So I’ll start it tomorrow. It’s good!

The same thing happens in the corporate space, particularly during geopolitical tensions. Right now, companies are postponing projects, abandoning initiatives, and hunkering down into inaction. There is a crazy amount of uncertainty with the economy, war, global tensions, politics — and so leaders are doing the easiest thing of all: nothing.

And that’s exactly why I wrote Dancing in the Rain — the subtitle, How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times, provides the exact antidote to indecision. (Grab it via dancing.jimcarroll.com!)

It’s really quite simple.

Stop stopping.

Start moving.

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Futurist Jim Carroll tries to practice the innovation lessons he shares with his clients. He often fails at this.

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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/02/daily-inspiration-anyone-can-find-an-excuse-to-stand-still-make-it-your-lifes-work-to-find-the-reasons-to-move/

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Don't wait for the storm to pass. Learn to dance in the rain. Your power is in the pivot.

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WIST Quotations Mar 12

A quotation from Montaigne

Not being able to control events, I control myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me.

[Ne pouvant regler les evenemens, je me regle moy-mesme: & m’applique à eux, s’ils ne s’appliquent à moy.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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WIST Quotations Mar 11

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

There is a doom inexorable and a law inviolable, or there is a providence that can be merciful, or else there is a chaos that is purposeless and ungoverned. If a resistless fate, why try to struggle against it? If a providence willing to show mercy, do your best to deserve its divine succour. If a chaos undirected, give thanks that amid such stormy seas you have within you a mind at the helm.

[Ἤτοι ἀνάγκη εἱμαρμένης καὶ ἀπαράβατος τάξις ἢ πρόνοια ἱλάσιμος ἢ φυρμὸς εἰκαιότητος ἀπροστάτητος. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἀπαράβατος ἀνάγκη, τί ἀντιτείνεις; εἰ δὲ πρόνοια ἐπιδεχομένη τὸ ἱλάσκεσθαι, ἄξιον σαυτὸν ποίησον τῆς ἐκ τοῦ θείου βοηθείας. εἰ δὲ φυρμὸς ἀνηγεμόνευτος, ἀσμένιζε ὅτι ἐν τοιούτῳ κλύδωνι αὐτὸς ἔχεις ἐν σαυτῷ τινα νοῦν ἡγεμονικόν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 14 (12.14) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2068…

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Roland L. Taylor (RolandiXor)Mar 6

Different setup for a bit due to home repairs, but the work continues.

New Roll Out just landed.

This week: an egg in every basket, how choice and flexibility build resilience in software and business.

Plus:
- Digital sovereignty
- Basket map exercise (1 main lane, 2 support lanes)
- It’s FOSS: Ubuntu hate, and a modern Synaptic-style package manager.

Read: https://rolandixor.pro/blog/post/the-roll-out-16

#adaptability #strategy #business #ubuntu #open-source #opensource #synaptic #debian #linux