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...
October 23, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Into the well of spiritual exhaustion It amazes me that I have been a guest of this world for 54 years. Like many people I speak to in my generation, we feel as vital as we did in our thirties, yet the reflection in the mirror sometimes shocks. “Who is that person?”...
October 22, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A burst of light…can hit you at anytime After a wonderful, rich conversation with Cindy Wigglesworth today on the subject of her life’s work, Spiritual Intelligence, she defines spiritual as the innate human need to be connected with something larger than...
October 21, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
For in the next breath, or maybe the one after that…or even after that…comes the miracle Most people know the feeling of nothingness after you have poured your heart and soul into something and it hasn’t worked out. But here is the rub…it is not that it hasn’t worked...