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Jul 13, 2024Aug 14, 2024Michael Carty

Like university finals forever

When stress gets out of hand, it can feel as if the stressful times will never end. How do you deal with stress?

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Sep 2, 2023Aug 29, 2023Michael Carty

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.

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Jul 17, 2021Aug 30, 2021Michael Carty

The beautiful struggle

What lies ahead always appears daunting. But we can still love (or learn to love) the struggle, the beautiful struggle that lasts exactly as long as life does.

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Mar 28, 2020Mar 28, 2020Michael Carty

Time suddenly alters completely

The coronavirus-driven halting of everyday live has given us all so much time. But there is so much worry and dread to fill that time. How are you coping?

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Mar 14, 2020May 30, 2020Michael Carty

Each breath

Each breath gives us life. Each breath takes us that smallest step closer to the end. Closer to the end of the day, closer to the end of the task in hand and closer to, well, the end.

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Feb 15, 2020Oct 27, 2021Michael Carty

Be kind to all

Be kind to all. Thoughts on kindness, featuring some wonderful guest words from Rebecca L Coates on why kindness can require both effort and strength… but is so worth it.

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Mar 16, 2019Sep 8, 2021Michael Carty

My top 5 Yoga With Adriene videos

What are the best Yoga With Adriene videos? In this post, I celebrate Adriene Mishler’s Yoga With Adriene, look at how yoga can help everyone, and share my top five Yoga With Adriene videos.

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Sep 30, 2017Michael Carty

Of struggle, gratitude and the elk

Are you content with your level in life? No-one owes you a single, solitary bean. It’s all down to you: The level you are on, what you make of it, and the gratitude you feel. It’s fair to say that podcaster Joe Rogan and his friend, bowhunter Cameron Hanes, are on a different level to […]

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Jan 21, 2017Jul 10, 2021Michael Carty

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 […]

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Jan 14, 2017Jul 10, 2021Michael Carty

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 […]

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