December 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Time for a change It is always a good time for change. Change is life. Some changes take us through a terrible crucible, where loss, pain, humiliation, devastation or cruelty strip every shred of redundancy from us. Other changes are delightful, fun and exciting. I...
November 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The perpetual game A victim cries, poor me. A persecutor yells, it is all your fault. And a rescuer is endlessly looking for someone to help often sacrificing themselves in the process. This cycle of collective destruction was first described by Stephen Karpman in the...
November 30, 2022 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
Embrace difference. Manage too much charge. Refuse a singularity as a response. Our current culture seeks consensus and avoids authority. Likes freedom but hates responsibility. Seeks decentralisation and abhors centralisation. Wants rights but refuses different...
November 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Smart Stupid I used to think being smart was the ticket to almost everything. That story about working hard, being smart and as a result success arrives on a platter, how I swallowed that story, hook, line and sinker. Like most things, these simple myths strip...
November 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Awareness arising It starts with a realisation that something held as true might not be. At first we might not like it, this creeping suspicion. So we do our best to block it. Truth and growing up are persistent and will defy our attempts to suppress them, even if...
