July 9, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Contrast and Comparison To compare has usefulness. To liken, represent as similar. When I am designing things I look to what others are doing all of the time, to learn, adapt, copy. There really is no absolute originality. To compare as an addiction is dangerous to...
July 6, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The truth will set you free but first it must be seen I look back at my life and gasp at the number of times I believed something that I no longer believe. We are all under the influence of spin, seduction and spell casting of some kind. To see beyond the veil of...
July 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How we respond The ability to respond. To say you will do something and do it. To see injustice and act because you have the ability to respond. To stand up to a bully when they aim their attack at an innocent. Because you can respond. To get off the couch instead of...
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...