December 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All plans of mice and men If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that plans are OK, but the moment we become attached to them working as we expected, the plan owns us. When a plan owns us, when our expectations are entangled with the plan unfolding as we want it, then...
December 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The best way to live Chatting with a very long-term friend yesterday and she said that it was so good that my dreams have come true. I took a moment and then said my dreams had not come true because I had stopped having dreams a long time ago. This is not a bad...
December 17, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
An ode to rest One of the key elements of steward leadership is holding the shape and space for that which you are stewarding. While this appears to be a passive role, it is entirely active, requiring deep intentionality, clarity of mind, constant scanning of the...
December 16, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Approaching our Third Anniversary Beauty of Beginnings is approaching the three year anniversary of its commencement. On January 1st 2018 I started. The idea arrived on that morning. I thought that if I wrote a daily blog for a whole year I would then have a day book...
December 15, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
A personal letter of gratitude and love to close 2020 2020 has been one of my best years. If not my best year. I say this without any form of hubris. Humility and gratitude have been my daily bath. Gratitude of dimensions unable to be squeezed into a sentence, even a...