August 25, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Soul food A stranger just brought me a coffee. A friend of a friend, a man with a beautiful smile and such a generous heart, brought me a coffee. As he was leaving, I said to him, in a moving moment, “You never know the back story an act of generosity can...
August 24, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Heart Break Happens to us all. More than once. We pour our love into a creation, a relationship, a dream, a beloved pet. And then it is gone, broken, finished. A dark cavity lives in our chest. We can choose to allow callouses to harden our heart. To cultivate...
August 23, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Being a leader and being a boss Keeping the main thing the main thing. There is a distinction between being a leader and being a boss. A leader leads. People want to follow a leader without any form of coercion. A leader has their eyes cast on the distant horizon....
August 22, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The first lie Every notable historical era will have its own Faust, wrote Kierkegaard. Selling our Soul to a demon called Mephistopheles to achieve some short-term desire is the way of humans. Be that power, beauty, fame, love, money, success… At some stage, we...
August 21, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The very important work of a smile The type of smile that is spirit bursting through eyes and mouth…unable to be contained by mere human biology. One of the most precious of viruses. Completely contagious. Seeking to infect. And those infected grateful. A smile...
August 20, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Measure what we care about “We don’t know how to measure what we care about so we care about what we measure.” This quote is a construct of our Western mind where we love to measure, and if we cannot measure something then its perceived value...
