December 4, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
When what you get is not what you expect It was one of those mornings. Grey skies, very light rain, 25C before 5 AM. The ocean top as smooth as silk, the water clear and clean. My surfing has been progressing to the point of standing up way more than falling down. But...
December 3, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Making powerful requests Critical ingredients Be crystal clear about what you want. Be very specific – how many, by when, with whom, under what conditions. An ephemeral request will make it very hard for the giver to grant your request. If you can’t name it with...
December 2, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Loaded words Like socialism. Communism. Capitalism. Fundamentalism. Authoritarianism. We debate them, consider them with a mix of terror, ignorance, curiosity. We are repelled. Our sense-making shuts down when someone mentions one or many of them. They are packed...
December 1, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
We are a composition of archetypes Archetypes are patterns from which copies can be made. To see a person who has the archetype of the clown, or the gambler, the peacemaker, the warrior…is to know the essential fabric of their being. We are a composition of...
November 30, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Failure is only true when we turn our backs on the richness of its offering I have a medical science degree that took six very full years to obtain. While it did not cost me dollars or debt, for at that time tertiary education in Australia was free, it cost six years...
November 29, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
When our internal power is aligned we become a transmission When power is given to people who have not developed the maturity to know its contours, its blunt edges, its ability to grow monstrous, to be cruel, to fracture…it becomes another means for humans to be...