September 19, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clean Communication and the experience of anger Imagine two innocent people having a conversation. There is no pre-existing charge or issue. Mutual respect is present. During the course of the conversation, one person believes that the other is charged and angry. ...
September 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The little things When I was younger, I thought it was the big things that mattered. The windfall. Winning. Getting the gig. I am not the first, nor the last, who will write of the tragedy of youth, spent always looking to that exciting horizon for the next big shiny...
September 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
My wisdom school I was out in the surf at dawn this morning, each morning the light just a little earlier than the day before. Southern summer approaching. It was a soft and small wave. Not enough swell. But no wind at all. Glassy conditions. So many fish. Whales...
September 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What are you willing to accept to get what you want? This question takes us deep into our morality. Each of us has the capacity to sell our soul, or parts of it, for something that we believe will fill a need. Every human has to confront the part of them that is open...
September 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Labour for love or When we do work that makes our hearts sing, where we get to bring all of our unique skills, talent and experience to the work, we know both privileged and luck. To get to do this type of LOVE work is an extraordinary privilege. Very few people have...
September 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
For the love of hierarchy The original structure of truth was mythic. I am the word, and my word is God. Believe in me. (Expressed in one thousand variations.) Truth became knowledge and science-based as humanity emerged from the mythic to modern evidence-based....