November 12, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The practice of acknowledgement – establishing a gratitude arc On a skype conversation this morning with my team from the USA (David, Dustin, Colleen) I was told about a gratitude arc. It was love at first hearing. Here is how it works. Say you are in a...
November 11, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Lifting the veil – the real apocalypse- on breaking down illusions The word apocalypse comes from Greek, apokalypsis, meaning an uncovering, a lifting of the veil, or the disclosure of something hidden, a surprise. Almost all humans are under some illusion. Each...
November 10, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All the rules have changed – what happens when our worldview is blown up The old formulas that used to work no longer work. No amount of wishing and hoping and trying lands. Certainty and consistency have been blown to Siberia. All that is left is… More...
November 5, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The seed of corruption – it has infested us all Corruption is derived from two root words. Cor, which is Latin for the heart, and rumpere, which means to break. To act with corruption is to act from a heart that is broken, not able to feel. A numb heart. How do...
November 4, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On depression, suicide and choice When I was in my thirties, I met a boy. I fell in love. Joseph was his name. I didn’t know at the time that Joseph suffered from bipolar disease. Some months later, Joseph tried to kill himself, shooting himself in the chest...
October 29, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Creative Tension – holding your nerve, entrepreneurial endurance I am in that place of creative tension. I know it, because everything has brought me to here. While reading Dan Pink’s latest book, To Sell is Human, he writes, backed by research, that...
