May 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings
What are you primed for When the out-of-the-blue opportunity lands, does it land in fallow soil? Have you cultivated the field of your longing? Have you done the groundwork, moved through apprenticeship towards mastery? Given your whole self to become the vessel...
May 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Think with your whole body We are suffering from a little whiplash to the intellectual. To thinking. Being in the head. You have to feel. Feel it. Or…it is not true if it is not felt. I have been told versions of these more than once. We need both. And in a world of...
May 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Sustainability
An ode to the artisan There are some things that simply must not be scaled. To do so would be to violate the Pattern Integrity of the art. Hand crafted-over-three-day-croissants for example. An experience I get to eat every Saturday morning. Into the croissant goes...
May 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Solving our home planets problems It might be time for an honest conversation. What is the primary purpose of your effort, your enterprise, your work in the world? If it is to make money/profit at all costs, then declare that. If it is for the accumulation of power...
May 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Generative To create, to beget offspring. From the same root as generous. Choose…to bring more…leave more…leave things better…than when you arrived. If you have nothing physical to give, then give your light, which has an infinite supply. Levity, grace, kindness. Or...
May 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A Game of Perspective Pick a spot. Stand and look to the horizon. The unknown future. Sense it. Does it feel impossible? Does it excite you? Or terrify? Is it beautiful? Does it entice? Notice the distance…far far…or closing in. Pause. Take a breath. Step into that...
