July 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Strong views open mind Strong views enable people to know what you stand for. When people know what you stand for, it allows them to choose engagement or not. Fundamentalist views are views that are closed to any possibility of change. There is no argument of any kind...
July 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
Curious? Ask questions like these Why is this true? Who said? What if it is not true? What would happen if it were not true? How would my identity be affected if it were not true? What is the source – the very beginning, the history of this and does that...
July 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
A letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia Dear Ms Wong, My impression of you is that you are a decent and good person. Yet I wonder why you and the Prime Minister are so profoundly silent on the atrocities in Gaza? I wonder if you are captured by the...
June 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Liberty is at risk What is liberty? The condition of a free person; absence of restraint; permission to do and say. If we do not have the liberty to tell people, especially elected representatives, what they do not want to hear, do we have liberty? If we are policed...
June 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Naming truth There is an art to removing extraneous words and naming the truth that lies beneath people’s actions, including ours. This is the meaning of the expression, ‘The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.’ What is the truth, using the...
June 23, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Speaking Absolutes Always. Never. Everyone. All. I hear a man stand on a public platform and claim that all of civilisation will be thankful for an egregious action taken in these last few days. All of civilisation. He does not speak for me. He has never spoken for...
