July 3, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Pursuit of Happiness Much has been written about happiness in recent times. While I am a fan of being happy, why place the search for happiness at the centre of our existence? For one to know true happiness, one must also know the depths of despair. Yet we avoid...
June 25, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the subject of Grant Hackett While I do not know Grant personally, I swim at his home pool, and watched him train for years. I watched him show up for kids, for fundraisers, always with a smile. He is a big guy, but he always came across as being kind and...
June 25, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Waking from Slumber. The question is, will we wake in time? Interesting that the myth of Snow White has been brought back to the big screen in various iterations in the past few months. The great beauty Snow White, kind and caring of all of life, succumbed to a...
June 18, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
The Ocean never lies One day calm The next enraged Home to a world of worlds Pretty, then deadly She will embrace you, swallow you or spit you out And in her depths, currents move That few see For her surface entrances The Ocean never lies She is the waters of your...
June 12, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Play small or live out loud? Rejection from others starts with rejection of ourselves This is how it happens… You are at a party. You meet someone you’d like to get to know better. But you hold back a little of yourself because you really want this person to...
June 5, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
Beaten down by life, daring greatly I have allowed myself to be beaten down by life. There…I said it. I have seen just how much I have let this be so. How much I have given up on dreams, how I have become afraid to step back into the arena once again, in case I...
