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Feb 4, 2023Jul 18, 2023Michael Carty

Shaking the stuckness

What do you do when you feel stuck? When you want to put pen to paper, but the words just refuse to flow. How do you shake the stuckness?

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Oct 8, 2022Jul 23, 2023Michael Carty

What stories do you tell yourself?

How do you make sense of the changing world around you? What stories do you tell yourself about the world as you see it? Are they the stories you truly need to hear?

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Jan 29, 2022Oct 16, 2022Michael Carty

Where words are gifted to me

Words – written or spoken, whispered or sung – can take you to some fantastic place. Celebrating the lovely writing of Chris Difford.

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Jan 15, 2022May 31, 2022Michael Carty

Written with the same letters

Do you know how powerful your words are? Whether written or spoken, tweeted, blogged, texted, shouted, whispered or withheld, words have the potential to change the world around you in an instant.

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Jun 12, 2021Jul 30, 2021Michael Carty

Each day in this life

Each day in this life is a link in a chain. We have to accept that there will be days when all that matters is to have made it through, to have completed another link so that the chain remains unbroken.

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Feb 13, 2021Feb 11, 2021Michael Carty

The miracle of Bill & Ted

What is the secret of the infectious sweetness of Bill & Ted? How can you stop good ideas turning from sweet to sour? Bill, Ted (and one of their creators, Ed Solomon) might just be able to help us answer these questions.

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Nov 28, 2020Jan 28, 2021Michael Carty

Three foundations of creativity

Where does creativity spring from? Brian Koppelman’s fascinating podcast with Geddy Lee of Rush offers some possible answers to this impossible question.*

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Jun 6, 2020Jun 21, 2020Michael Carty

David D’Souza: Writing for the joy of sharing

#MJCarty300: To celebrate the MJCarty.com blog hitting 300 posts, I’m honoured to host a guest post by David D’Souza on the joys of writing, sharing and connecting.

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Aug 3, 2019Aug 2, 2020Michael Carty

Left in the dust?

Change never stops. Change is a challenge. Change always gives you a choice. This is as true as ever in today’s “post-shame, post-truth” world.

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Jul 6, 2019Aug 6, 2019Michael Carty

Blogaversary time! Celebrating MJCarty.com’s 1st year

MJCarty.com celebrates its first birthday this week! Here are some words on why I love to write this blog, plus a quick flit through the most-read posts from the first year of MJCarty.com.

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