September 13, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Autonomous Autonomy = self law Our capacity to be autonomous requires a high degree of self-awareness as to how our values and beliefs have been influenced by others. Part of adulting is determining if our cultural influences are ones that we want to adopt as our own....
September 10, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
But for my luck of birth There is a reason we have been invited through the ages to walk in the shoes of another. Not simply to stand and see what another sees, but to feel what another feels. To walk. To be with. So simple is it to dismiss a worldview. And in so...
September 8, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The risk of taking a stand It always comes at a cost. You might lose your job. Suffer endless ridicule. Be sidelined for years. And years. If you do not take a stand, you face the slow inner disintegration of the most precious asset you have. Your own self-regard. I...
August 23, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Being a leader and being a boss Keeping the main thing the main thing. There is a distinction between being a leader and being a boss. A leader leads. People want to follow a leader without any form of coercion. A leader has their eyes cast on the distant horizon....
August 22, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The first lie Every notable historical era will have its own Faust, wrote Kierkegaard. Selling our Soul to a demon called Mephistopheles to achieve some short-term desire is the way of humans. Be that power, beauty, fame, love, money, success… At some stage, we...
August 20, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Measure what we care about “We don’t know how to measure what we care about so we care about what we measure.” This quote is a construct of our Western mind where we love to measure, and if we cannot measure something then its perceived value...
