December 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
The deliberate path of ease and flow I, like many overachievers, often choose the hard path. The uphill, the biggest challenge. Give me a 96 km run and I think nothing of it. There is much to be said for going for the biggest challenge and testing our limits. Much has...
December 3, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
The lone runner under a vast sky The lone runner under the vast canvas of the sky reminds me that we are so very small a part of a much larger story. It is so easy to feel small and unimportant. That life is overwhelming. That we are isolated. Alone. Insignificant....
December 2, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Habits, commitments and sabotage I have some wonderful habits. 20 plus years of early morning exercise that keeps me young, fit, vital and alive. So much a habit that I hardly need to think about it, and I certainly do not argue with myself about getting up any more....
December 2, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Getting to the real want of a client – the extra step that builds enduring relationships Yesterday, I was working with the senior team of a creative agency on their team alignment and coherence. This was my third full-day session with them over the past 18...
December 1, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
The body doesn’t lie – on the importance of physical intelligence in leadership We have been trained to rely on the mind. On what we are thinking. We stuff our minds with knowledge endlessly. And in the process of becoming thinking beings, we stepped over...
November 28, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
The whisper of our future selves The light in the clouds is a window to another world. A porthole of sorts, where one might imagine a parallel Universe, or our future selves peeking through. Perhaps our future selves and our ancestors all exist in this very same...