December 2, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
The reason we start is often not the reason we keep going Often times we start things for a reason and keep doing the thing for another reason. This is the principle of Precession. Four full years ago I started Beauty of Beginnings to be sure that by the end of a...
December 1, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The fine art of asking There are the givers and the takers. Syntropic World is filled with givers. Generosity is the norm. This is a delightful world compared to the rapacious greed of business-as-usual. Givers need to learn to ask. When the ask itself comes from our...
November 30, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The energy bank account Negative deposits Stress Pain Anxiety Anger Frustration Lack of sleep Too much exercise without recovery Poor nutrition Lack of natural light Social Media Relational dysfunction or upset Work that is soul-destroying Greed Fear Precarity Malice...
November 27, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Defining a personal code of conduct The current government of Australia is resisting an Integrity commission that would ensure politicians are not above the scrutiny of an independent body. Asymmetrical power and access to advanced information are corrupting, even for...
November 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Leadership as push or pull? To push an idea, a person, a team…might be necessary. Yet it is unsustainable in the long term. The burden of creation and success lives in constant pushing, and in the process removes the intrinsic desire of people to be self-generating...
November 24, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Apartheid and appropriation In 1947 a policy was introduced in South Africa which officially began in 1948 called apartheid. It was the segregation of Europeans from the non-Europeans. The non-European did not have any choice in this. They could not be polite, well...