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My life so far: the wins, the bounces, and the lessons I learned the hard way.

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Anecdotes and Data
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Anecdotes and Data

By Tim McCarthy

May 1, 2021

A popular topic has become very personal for me. The topic is disinformation and misinformation. How did information become so malleable? Some say a villain lurks. Far more likely to...
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Losing Track of Our Dreams?
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Losing Track of Our Dreams?

By Tim McCarthy

March 29, 2021

About 20 times this year, I will conduct a 3-hour program called “Dream Sketch”. In a highly interactive setting, I help CEOs and business owners define more clearly what they...
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How to Love America by David Brooks
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How to Love America by David Brooks

By Tim McCarthy

March 29, 2021

Like you, I’m sure, I love America, but the love has changed. I started out with the child version: America is the greatest and most powerful country on earth. That...
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Observing Moonshots from Ashtabula
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Observing Moonshots from Ashtabula

By Tim McCarthy

February 27, 2021

My first 17 years and the last 17 years have been spent in my little hometown of Ashtabula, Ohio. In between I worked for a national political organization, a couple...
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Ask for Help
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Ask for Help

By Tim McCarthy

January 31, 2021

Author’s note: For deeper thinkers, as in Harvard Business Review, see this month’s featured article. I personally find it difficult to ask for help.  Maybe you do, too. In my...
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Inclusion
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Inclusion

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2020

I worked for fourteen hours at the polls on November 3 rd . It was an unforgettable experience. Our home is just off a state park in a little resort...
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This is Not a Dress Rehearsal
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This is Not a Dress Rehearsal

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

About forty times a year, at the end of Vistage (CEO peer group) sessions, I say, “don’t get caught in the dressing room rewriting the script of your life. This...
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Major Lazer
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Major Lazer

By Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford

October 31, 2020

Song of the month: “Lay your head on me”, by Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford   Editors note: M y daughter and I spent a Saturday evening recently by a...
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Zero Sum People

By Tim McCarthy

September 29, 2020

Except in sports, it doesn’t seem to me that for one side to win, the other must lose. That’s the concept of zero sum, and I’ve learned to avoid people...
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Feeding My Head AND My Body

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Barbara Cartland said, “You become what you think. You are what you eat”. I heard a similar quote in the 1970s and it has come back to me many times...
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Reinvention
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Reinvention

By Tim McCarthy

July 27, 2020

Events in the lives of each of our three children are becoming opportunities for their personal reinvention. Each are facing major life changes and so they must decide who they...
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Our History
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Our History

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2020

After reorganizing my paper clip collections during the lockdown, I decided I would finally attack the thousands of files my sisters and I have set aside over the years regarding...
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House at Pooh Corner
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House at Pooh Corner

By Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina

May 30, 2020

by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina Editor’s note:   During the lockdown, my about-to-be 7 year old grandson drew a picture of our house and sent it to me with...
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Pity Parties
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Pity Parties

By Tim McCarthy

April 27, 2020

A student raised his hand during an MBA guest lecture some years ago and said to me, “Thanks for telling us about the barriers you overcame to succeed, but could...
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Risking Deep Connections
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Risking Deep Connections

By Tim McCarthy

December 30, 2019

The first three paragraphs from a recent Seth Godin blog titled, “Deep Connection”, got me thinking. “When someone tells you something you need to hear, instead of something you’re hoping...
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Why I Write
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Why I Write

By Tim McCarthy

November 27, 2019

I write and publish my writing for the following reasons: To learn what I’m thinking. Once something’s on paper (computer) it’s more real to me. To learn how I change....
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What’s Your Story?

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

I come from a long line of story tellers. It comes first in the genes – quite a bit of Irish blood when McCarthy married a McDonough We have letters...
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Is Time My Friend or My Enemy?

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Think about the key decisions facing you.  Perhaps you’ve been putting one of them off.  Perhaps you’re facing one deadline or another - buying or selling a home, hiring or...
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The Head and The Heart

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Our website’s March article of the month features a wonderful story about a social enterprise named First Book.   Their organization provides tens of millions of books a year to...
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Mastering Time

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

I asked the business owner who was lamenting the challenges of being an entrepreneur, "Who decides what you do in a day?".  He answered, "me, of course".  My point of...
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Lessons Lived

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Author’s Note: These short stories are a series exemplify lessons I’ve learned in building a foundation. I realized in writing these that I’m not embarrassed by the mistakes I’ve made;...
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