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Feb 14, 2026Feb 4, 2026Michael Carty

Brevity

Brevity is next to godliness. There is tremendous power in making your case with the fewest – but best chosen – words possible.

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Feb 7, 2026Feb 6, 2026Michael Carty

Do the most with the least

What is the most that you can do with the least?

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Jan 24, 2026Jan 22, 2026Michael Carty

The gift of (personal) disaster?

Moments of crisis, of personal disaster, can sometimes prove to be the impetus for necessary, positive and transformational change in your life.

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Jan 17, 2026Jan 13, 2026Michael Carty

Time to open and change?

If each of us has a limitless capacity to do good, why not use it?

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Jan 10, 2026Jan 3, 2026Michael Carty

Not drinking

Gentle reader: A question for you, and just you. What is your relationship with alcohol?

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Dec 13, 2025Dec 3, 2025Michael Carty

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.

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Nov 22, 2025Nov 18, 2025Michael Carty

You bring light in

What is the most powerful legacy – the most “you” thing – that you could leave to the world?

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Nov 15, 2025Nov 15, 2025Michael Carty

Focus

Focus on the words you use. Can you put into words what you see and what you feel, right now? 

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Nov 8, 2025Oct 31, 2025Michael Carty

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.”* Stan Lee’s words inspired this post, which can be read from first sentence to last, or from last sentence to first.

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Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Michael Carty

For the love of work?

What do you love most about the work you get to do? For me, it’s telling stories with data.

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