May 8, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The reward for a big evolutionary purpose is who you become on the journey Why set goals? Why have a purpose? A purpose with goals gives us a direction to focus on. They allow a choice between spending time on this or that. “Will this move me towards my purpose,...
May 7, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To respect myself What does this mean? Literally, the act of looking back. To treat with esteem, regard with some degree of reverence. How do we respect ourselves? How do we treat ourselves with esteem? Are we our word? Hence, can we trust the promises we make to...
May 6, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Profit and its illusions Profit – from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’. We seek as humans to advance. To make progress. This is a healthy impulse. But at what price? And is it acceptable that one person profits at the expense of...
May 5, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
All the pieces around you “Arrange all the pieces around you” is a quote by Virginia Woolf. This quote has been haunting me. Simple as it sounds, it carries enormous resonant truth. Imagine this scenario. You are at a stage in your business where you need...
May 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
There is no going back The yearning for some past lifestyle. The trad wife. The land before colonisation. The way it was. It is, at every single level, impossible. To go back violates the laws of physics and maths. For a start, you are not the same person you were...
May 1, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
There is an elephant sitting at the dining room table No, there is no elephant, says my friend, sitting at the same table, even though the elephant is right there. I refuse to see an elephant. This is willful blindness. To acknowledge the elephant means a collapse...