April 12, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Far from perfect Am I. I can be cruel with words. I can certainly be a blunt instrument in my feedback. I am not good with fluff. A direct path is my preference rather than a circular route of niceties. I would rather people be direct and real with me than...
April 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Be in integrity. Be the model. Live lite. Do this against the tide. Do this even when in the short term it might mean ‘losing.’ Integrity – to hold our shape – to be in truth and alignment with every element of our being – is a life’s work and...
April 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Cherish the moments On the water before the sun crested the horizon. One of those clear days, more usual in midwinter than early autumn, where the horizon was cloud-free. And then that glow of the first kiss of the sun. Across a peaceful ocean. My love in the shadow...
April 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Selected separation A refusal to keep up with technological and cultural change is a form of selective separation. When a younger generation has a fluency around forms of technology and an older generation adapts the stand of refusal to learn, the divide between the...
March 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are not our words but our actions We are not our words but our actions. Easy is it to speak of things we will do. How we will be. I can write and write and write. I can speak of grand visions. Of dignity. Respect. Yet how I show up, how I am with you, with those...
March 26, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Slowly slowly then suddenly This is how change usually happens. If we are standing on the sidelines watching many of us miss the slowly, slowly part. We only see and feel the suddenly. The artist or business that came ‘from nowhere.’ A war that no one could imagine....