Of petals, buzzards and toads! A few personal highlights from April 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Recent Posts
Moment of crisis, moment of truth
Moments of crisis show you the world as it is, and offer you the opportunity to change.
This is your life now
Sometimes it is good to take a clear-eyed look at where you find yourself in life. How do you feel when you think about where your life is now, in this moment?
For the rest of your life
Fighting to overcome self-doubt is a lifelong task. But working to overcome self-doubt can and will unlock the world you want to live in for the rest of your life.
MJCarty snapshots March 2024
A disco ball, a green cactus and a green-clad MJCarty! A few personal highlights from March 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
How to make purposeful change
You are changing every moment of your life, whether you like it or not. But purposeful change is different. You can choose to change something – or everything – in your life.
Focus
Focus on the words you use. Can you put into words what you see and what you feel, right now?
What you are about to become
Welcome to the roaring twenties. What lies around the corner for you? You can only know what you are going through now, and what you have struggled through before. You can never know what you are about to become.
Jeremy Beadle, the unlikely Grateful Dead festival promoter
Unlikely but true: 1980s UK TV type Jeremy Beadle helped organise and promote the 1972 Bickershaw festival, featuring the Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Donovan and more.
MJCarty snapshots February 2024
Queens’ heads, wolf moons and hints of spring. A few personal highlights from February 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
The white-hot space
When you are on a winning streak, there will inevitably come a moment when you are not. Once you’re out of that white-hot space, how do you adapt to life on the other side?
The most beautiful gift
Your life is the most beautiful gift. You are free to do with this gift as you will.
Time to drop the act?
In Groundhog Day, Ned Ryerson is the biggest irritant to Bill Murray’s character Phil Conners. So how best to deal with the Neds in your life? There is both a way out and a potential perfect outcom
MJCarty snapshots January 2024
Frosts and forests, coinage and coffee! A few personal highlights from January 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
No dark without light
Here is my foreword to the latest book from my friend Bryan Wempen. Your own path is there for you to discover.
What results do you expect?
Gentle reader: What can you change to make things better? What will happen if you do or don’t make this change?
Purity
Focusing on the pure essence of the present moment can make all the difference. But focusing isn’t always fun.
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2023
I present the five most-read posts of 2023 on MJCarty.com. If you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine, you have my heartfelt gratitude.
MJCarty snapshots December 2023
Belated cybermen, unexpected badgers and grunge memories! A few personal highlights from December 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Brevity
Brevity is next to godliness. There is tremendous power in making your case with the fewest – but best chosen – words possible.
First rays
Brighter times lie ahead. The cloud will break, even if almost imperceptibly at first. The sun’s rays will begin to shine through.
You will do great things
Marvel Comics supremo Stan Lee once told the young Gene Simmons (later of Kiss fame): “You will do great things.”* Lee’s words inspired this post, which can be read from first sentence to last, or from last sentence to first.
MJCarty snapshots November 2023
Unseasonal roses, canine companions and autumnal cascades! A few personal highlights from November 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Of messages and bottles
No action performed with positive intention is pointless. If you feel that something is worth doing, then do it.
Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt: I’ll never be the same because of you
“I love both the reality and the meaning of Madonna.” A special guest post by Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt on how Madonna has inspired him to live “a deliberate, provocative and vivid life” of reinvention and celebration.
MJCarty snapshots October 2023
Squirrels, fungi and close encounters! A few personal highlights from October 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Stay Clean
To live at all times in accordance with your core values should be as smooth and as natural as a fish swimming through the ocean.
Writing well: What’s a good word?
In which I share some favourite words I’ve found over the years, on ways to help find the perfect words.
After the sun
How do you feel, after the sun has gone? There is beauty everywhere in the arrival of autumn.
MJCarty snapshots September 2023
Dragonflies, unicorns and resurrected sunflowers! A few personal highlights from September 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Always think about tomorrow
Victory at all costs for today is a dead end. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Always think about tomorrow.
An entirely benevolent gesture?
When was the last time you encountered an entirely benevolent gesture? Something done from pure motives, with the simple aim of bringing a tiny bit more good into this world?
Self-doubt
Gentle reader: Do you experience or even suffer with self-doubt? If you feel self-doubt, have you found a way to deal with it?
Stayin’ alive
If you are lucky enough to stay alive long enough, many things will fall apart or fall away. If you are lucky, what you are left with might be what is most important.
MJCarty snapshots August 2023
A few personal highlights from August 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots. This is my latest monthly selection of snapshots of things that caught my eye over these past few weeks, comprising the month of August 2023. As you will see, sunflowers figure heavily this month, as August will likely prove the peak month for […]
The hard part is keeping it
What things enrich your life to an extent you might not even realise? What are you doing to keep those invaluable things in your life?
Give good thank you
Gratitude has immense power. Give good thank you to all you meet today.
MJCarty snapshots July 2023
Batman, Oscar Wilde, giraffes and numerous flowers! A few personal highlights from July 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
London: Forever fresh, forever new
London is always changing, always evolving, always transforming. Some snapshots from and thoughts on a city where everything begins again.
Stop and…
Just a simple little post about the simple little pleasures that enrich and refresh our lives. When was the last time you were able to stop and smell the roses?
MJCarty snapshots June 2023
Pink peonies, teeny spiders and coffee at its iciest! A few of my personal highlights from June 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Transitions
Gentle reader: Has there ever been a moment in your life when you realised that you had stepped into a new world? That everything had changed?