May 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What we really desire Let’s speak of desire. Not the packaged form of desire that our culture reveres, which is more akin to addiction and superficial want. Not the desire of lust, which is a sign of the hollow shell of our emptiness. But desire, the deepest...
May 30, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How can businesses contribute to a better future for the planet? What makes a business? An idea, people, coordination, cash flow, a service or product that is needed and wanted, access to materials and knowledge, the ability to tell the story to people seeking the...
May 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Knowledge is a beautiful thing The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman In a world of fear and scarcity, we forget the abundance of so much value. Knowledge can only increase. The more you have, the more there is to...
May 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Healthy polarity creates wisdom Don’t become a well-rounded person. Become a thoroughly spiky person, says Bruce Sterling. I might propose a middle ground. Choose the spiky areas that you want to cultivate. Total honesty is impossibly cruel. Total honestly says you...
May 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Fear of age and breaking This may be the first time in over 2000 of these Beauty of Beginnings blogs that I have featured myself in the sunrise. The conditions were just right to walk, fully clothed, out to the point of Snapper Rocks. From this place, surfers launch...
May 26, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Two of my favourite quotes You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has a name for....