February 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Live fully now Perhaps in the end, we are only to live fully with what we have. To say yes to exactly the circumstances present. Even in tragedy, anger and vengeance will not bring back the dead. We get to choose how we show up today. Rather a life that buries the...
February 23, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What do you fear most in this life? This is the opening line of a book recommended by a dear friend, “The Great Work of Your Life” by Stephen Cope. Rare is it that I get completely stuck in the first question of a book, unable to move to the next sentence because I...
February 22, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Isolation is the enemy of wealth But first, what is wealth? Etymologically, wealth is well-being, happiness, prosperity and good health. Our current society has reduced the meaning to only one form. Financial. To be wealthy is to be whole and happy, not wanting in any...
February 21, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
There is a storm coming And we know it. Literally as a tropical cyclone in my local area, and metaphorically as more and more people caught in the tangles of denial by politicians of climate change, money and corruption in politics, get out from their chairs and name...
February 20, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Smallest, simplest, consistently taken It is still there. This big goal, or this most worrying pattern of behaviour. The conversation you have had for years. Yet here we are, still in it, little to no progress made. What is the smallest, simplest step you can take...
February 19, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Patterns of meaning making In one of my favourite books of the last decade, The Patterning Instinct, by Jeremy Lent, he talks about two people, one well-known in Western History, Christopher Columbus, and the other, hardly known at all, Admiral Zheng, who sailed the...
