June 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Brilliance forged through the crucible of stress It is the way of things. Stunning leadership, excellent character, tenacity, determination, commitment – these things are forged in a crucible of stress and adversity. Remember this next time life seems to be...
June 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Too easy If it is too easy we lose the sense of value. If learning is a breeze it loses its meaning and becomes boring. If gaining entry into a community is easy we fail from the beginning to bring a heightened sense of commitment. That extra stretch doesn’t have to...
June 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Turbulence of change Change is rarely smooth. Often it requires a breaking down. Phase state change, like water to ice, is a recalibration of the way the atoms are arranged. Imagine that at the human biological level? Crossing a threshold, rites of passage,...
May 31, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Taking my word, or anyone else, as the only way Please don’t! It is a sad road to switch out one oppressor with a more progressive oppressor not realising we are still oppressed. For many of my early years I placed others on pedestals. Many others. Then less. Now...
May 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Seize the day It was cold. Dark well beyond my usual time to get up. Blue sky of the previous day had been replaced by clouds. No warming sun to defrost cold bodies. The sunrise was spectacular. In the dawn light we donned wetsuits and paddled out beyond the shore...
May 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Untangling charge Relationships are complicated. When we are charged in a relationship the work is on us to untangle until we can become charge free. This is a process. There is no fixed time line. It is a commitment. The intention is to become charge free. To live...