July 24, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is shameful? How does shame prevent you from creating a life you love? I was listening to a podcast of Tim Ferriss this morning on my run. He was talking about Cato, one of the Stoics. Cato took the position that we must learn to be ashamed of the things that are...
July 23, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Beautiful Blue Blue…a colour…or a feeling? Today, both. Amazing that I can see the beauty of this scene and also feel blue. Yet in truth, if I really look at this…really melt into the presence of the beauty of this scene, all that is left is love…beauty…more love… The...
July 23, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
The call for Beautiful Business We humans know beauty…we know when we look at a sunrise, sunset, Crimson Rosella (see photo), a river meandering through a forest…that what we are seeing is beautiful. We know the beauty of our child’s smile…of...
July 22, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
A mechanistic or connected Universe? Two seagulls and a lone runner frame this beautiful sunrise. I have felt as if everything I have been working on has been stuck for about 6 weeks. Interestingly, in my inner work around the project that consumes most of my days, I...
July 21, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
Embrace the mystery A wonderful teacher advised me…embrace the mystery. This life of ours is a mystery. We try to order it…to have it be shaped in our image. Wisdom teaches us that this is a fool’s errand. It was never ours to shape. Rather, the path is one of...
July 21, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What to do when your business crashes and you lose it all. Stage 7 (of 7) Reinvention At this stage, who you are is profoundly different. The world looks different in your eyes. Things that you used to sweat over no longer trouble you. There is a sense of infinite...
