Into every life a little hate must fall. It’s what you do with it next that counts. Former Outkast gent Andre 3000 has the most wonderful voice. Listening to his NPR Microphone Check podcast appearance, it’s easy to imagine loving everything he says. But no matter who you are, what you say, or how you […]
Author: Michael Carty
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When did music begin for you?
Gentle reader: When and how did music come into your life? When did music “begin” for you? The tinniest little noise can spark a lifelong love. For most of us, there will be a moment when the magic of music reveals itself fully for the first time. It might be one single song clicking like […]
100 tiny hearts, three wise words
What’s keeping you going in 2017? Nuts as the world might seem, goodness, love and good sense haven’t gone away. I present to you four exhibits from the past week to back up my case. I wrote back on Christmas Day that throughout 2016 there had been “much to make a heart feel heavy and […]
#Womensmarch: ‘I saw the future and it was pink’
I am honoured to host the words of two wonderful women – Laurie Ruettimann and Leticia Sanchez de Garzón – on their experience of the Women’s March in Washington, DC on Saturday 21 January 2017. Watching from afar, last weekend’s Women’s March moved me to tears. It was a remarkable and powerful event, uniting hundreds […]
How do you deal with your frustrations?
You can’t always, as the song suggests, get what you want.* You might even find that, in a very real sense, you get what you need. How do you deal with frustration? Frustration is an inevitable part of all our lives, probably to a greater extent than most of us would be comfortable admitting. My […]
My Twitterversary: The grateful 8!
Twitterverse: Thank you for eight fantastic years of the wonderful and the quite wonderfully unexpected! Today (17 January 2017) marks eight years since I joined the world of Twitter (as @mjcarty). My eighth Twitterversary, if you will. I love Twitter. It has truly changed my life for the better. It serves the new and unexpected […]
Five principles of deliberate optimism
Can life ever be what you want it to be? There is a world of difference between the world you want to live in and the one in which you find yourself. Deliberate optimism is about working with what is. Gentle reader: It is my happy burden to report to you that social media serendipity […]
I started to live a different life
Gentle reader, do you realise how many great people have their birthday today (Sunday 8 January 2017)? This post is a quick celebration of three such great folks – Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Laurie Ruettimann – and of new life, change and difference. The King Astonishingly, today would have been Elvis Presley’s 81st birthday. […]
#3goodthings2016: What are your highlights of 2016?
What meant the most to you in 2016, gentle reader? I would love to know. Please consider sharing your highlights of the year with the #3goodthings2016 hashtag. All years are a balance of fair and foul. It’s no secret that 2016 was – to put it mildly – a rollercoaster of a year. The world […]
#7songs2016: All in All by @sbrownehr
A Boxing Day present for you, gentle reader. It’s my honour today to share a lovely guest post from my dear friend Steve Browne – quite possibly the most upbeat and inspiring gent you will meet in social media land. Steve is an HR director, a board member of SHRM, and a constant, singularly positive […]
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