July 3, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pacing As I write this I watch hundreds of people run past me 5 kilometres into the Gold Coast Marathon, a run I have completed 10 times. 42 kilometres of running requires starting at a pace you can finish. In the heat of the start it is easy to get caught in the fray...
July 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Life is this glorious fleeting thing that makes no sense I light a match. The flame burns brightly. With this flame I light candles, as many candles as I have available will be lit from that single match, without any loss to the first flame. And then we blow the...
June 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
To speak our thinking When we hold our thinking, puzzling, self-inquiry inside it has no mirror to reflect. Therefore we cannot see it from the eyes of the witness. To be able to see we need to speak our thinking and puzzling out. Or write it out. In our speaking...
June 27, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We need to reframe power Power is the ability to move something from one place to another. To move electrons. To move atoms. To move ourselves. Power as a dominating force demands movement of people, animals, land and creatures because those who hold the ‘power’ say...
June 25, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Act small. Act local. Stay strong. Take a stand against little atrocities. I woke to the terrible news from the United States that woman now has fewer rights to their body than people do to own and use guns. While this news was made public I was literally dreaming...
June 23, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Falling under a spell We are all under some kind of spell or another. We might believe that success comes from hard work. Many women working bone-breaking hours in countries affected by extreme poverty will tell you that hard work simply keeps the basics, if that, on...