"The key to tomorrow is finding your pace in an accelerating world!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

I'm down in Arizona for an event tomorrow for a room full of executives from the utility and energy sector, and I've got a wonderful new slide deck chock full of trends impacting the industry I'll have a lot to cover in the days ahead.
That said, what' pretty clear is that this industry - like many - is struggling to adapt to the overwhelming pace of change. It's a slow industry in a fast world.

The biggest issue is that they are faced with unprecedented demand to bring new power to the market because of the juggernaut of AI data centers, but the industry is slowed by regulation, massive complexity to bring new power to market, system inertia, and more. On top of that, they are faced with extreme volatility and uncertainty because of political challenges and the 'culture wars,.' all in the face of new technologies and methodologies that continue to accelerate. (Think wind, solar, batteries, microgrids.)

Part of what I realized, building the deck, was that I can't just talk about speed - I need to talk about pace. It's about finding the right trends to follow, the right disruption to chase, the right innovations to integrate. It's not about moving quickly willy-nilly to try to scramble to solve big problems, but moving with deliberate intent to master those problems - if that makes any sense.

It means understanding the long arc of the trends, and committing to them i the long term despite short-term volatility.

That's why the key to tomorrow is finding your pace in an accelerating world!
You are probably caught in the same situation.

Speed without strategy is just expensive chaos. Action without reflection produces motion, not progress. Showing up everywhere means being fully present nowhere.

Your competitive advantage isn't doing everything faster—it's knowing exactly where speed matters and where patience wins.

Because the future belongs to those who can run the full race, not just the first mile.

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Futurist Jim Carroll tries to pace his enthusiasm for fast change.

#Pace** **#Strategy** **#Sustainability** **#Energy** **#Utilities** **#Focus** **#Deliberate** **#Momentum** **#Endurance** **#Wisdom

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-the-key-to-tomorrow-is-finding-your-pace-in-an-accelerating-world/

"The gap between ambition and capability is an invitation to grow, not a limitation." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Someone asked me how you can keep up when things are changing so fast; how you can grow when there is so much to master; how you can succeed when the challenges can seem so big.

You do it by refusing to be cowed by the scope of what's ahead of you!

Right now, everyone is faced with the same issue - we have a lot of ambition, but given that there is so much new 'stuff'to master, our capabilities are often lacking. That can seem like a setback, a barrier, a wall that we can't break through - because we focus on our limits, not our capabilities.

Shifting our focus from limitations to opportunity is the key to breaking through.

I went back and talked ot myself - that is, I fed this idea to Google Gemini to see how we can focus on growth, not limits. It came back to me with this: Your 25-Point Plan to Bridge the Ambition-Capability Gap. There's a great little inspirational PDF that might be useful - it's in the post.

Step 1? Make speed your primary strategy - stop waiting, start doing!

Then reject perfectionism - our chase for doing something without a mistake is often the very thing that holds us back.

Need more? It's in the post and the PDF - read more!

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**#Growth** **#Ambition** **#Action** **#Speed** **#Capability** **#Mindset** **#Execution** **#Development** **#Momentum** **#Progress**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-personal-growth-the-gap-between-ambition-and-capability-is-an-invitation-to-grow-not-a-limitation/