February 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Finding gratitude in the mundane The thousand and one things we step over every day. Taken for granted. This is how entitlement and the superior taint of privilege are generated. When we discount the mundane. Our ability to move on the legs or the absence of legs we...
February 14, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Valentine’s day for me is 365 days of the year Like most people of a certain age I have had my heart broken more than once. I look back at my life in love with others. From those desperate grabs of idolisation as a teenager. All my hopes and dreams pinned on...
February 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Times of Neoliberal Autocracy. Truly strange bedfellows Nothing can breed violence like scarcity It is the bellwether of uprising. An increasing divide between the haves and have-nots. Hungry – for food, for access, for good education and health care, for...
February 12, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I was wrong Three words. Each of us needs to practice speaking these three words. I was wrong. Saying sorry is not the same as saying I was wrong. I was wrong. I made a mistake. I got it wrong. To own that we made a mistake is the hero’s act of our modern day....
February 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The polarisation of speech On the one hand we have political correctness. The rise of the super sensitive. “Don’t hurt my feelings” gone to the extreme. On the other we have the rise of freedom of inappropriate speech. Hate, trolling, racism, white...
February 10, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We cannot spreadsheet our way out of everything The gloriously annoying thing about being human is our complexity. For too long we have insisted that the way to be human is to operate using only one of our many ways of processing and synthesising information available...