December 6, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Unstructured free time Nothing to be done. No list. No scheduled meetings, even social ones. The pull of that great mystery, boredom, the evil of our current world, seen as shameful, or something to be afraid of. Yet by crossing the threshold of boredom, we might find...
December 5, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Putting a nest around the egg of an idea A beautiful idea arrives on the wings of a bird. Your heart skips a beat. It is love. You are the guardian steward of this precious idea, this gift. Mother bird, father bird, build your nest. Place the idea as an egg in a warm...
December 4, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Finding the fragile The most vulnerable part of us. We protect it so fiercely. Often we do not even know the one thousand ways we have built walls of protection. The fragile is maligned in a world that celebrates the strong. Yet this soft tender aspect of our...
December 3, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The difficult work of changing a cultural inequity Inequities are everywhere. Gender, race, wealth/poverty, education, ability, sexual orientation..to name a few. Today I want to speak about gender inequity. We have lived for a long time in a patriarchal society. The...
December 2, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
The reason we start is often not the reason we keep going Often times we start things for a reason and keep doing the thing for another reason. This is the principle of Precession. Four full years ago I started Beauty of Beginnings to be sure that by the end of a...
December 1, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The fine art of asking There are the givers and the takers. Syntropic World is filled with givers. Generosity is the norm. This is a delightful world compared to the rapacious greed of business-as-usual. Givers need to learn to ask. When the ask itself comes from our...