March 14, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Small and large meltdowns. Love and other catastrophes I have been running for 17 years. I started running to get fit after giving birth to my daughter. It has become a way of life. I have run close to 20 marathons around the world and many ultra-marathons. My...
July 13, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Three wishes Imagine that we can have three wishes granted, on the one condition that they cannot benefit you directly. They have to be wished on behalf of someone else. What would you wish for? I sat with this question for quite some time. The answer could have been...
June 16, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
Game Change Back in 1986, I attended a personal development workshop called Money and You. The facilitator was Robert Kiyosaki. (Author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series). The driving impulse to attend was a desire to make more money. I suspect I also wanted to...
April 22, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Do we live in a sufficient Universe What if there is more than enough for everyone? And you not only believed it, you lived it? In an earlier article, I talked about our societal enmeshment in the scarcity principle. We are so caught up in the model of scarcity...
March 16, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
At What Price Integrity in the Workplace I am a reasonably smart woman, very well read, able to converse with pretty much anyone on many issues, able to see complexity as well as most of the most able, and yet I feel I suffer in the world I work in, because I haven’t...
February 24, 2010 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
GRUNCH of Giants- reflections on Bucky, precession and economic hit men Of the many great things that age brings us, one of them is the ability to reflect on the path of our life. When I was 17 years old, I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. It was as if some new door...