July 1, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Holding an important vision is not a popularity contest Most of us want to be liked. We want to be seen as doing great work. We want praise and recognition. But to do the hard work of transformation, to hold a vision for a world with a future, a better way to increase...
June 26, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Nature has its own gestation rate. Become a better steward leader. Our human-constructed world says we have dominion. We are taught that we can push, drive, and ram through, as we see fit, on our timeline ignoring everything but the schedule. There is a place for...
June 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
This experience of discombobulation is to enter the liminal Just as the fish doesn’t see water, we miss a multitude of perspectives. I might look in the mirror and see my face, my whole face, and not see the blemish on my chin. You might look at my face and only see...
June 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The difficult work of birthing our art Our important work might take years or decades to become synthesised, coherent and whole. Until then, we speak in fragments. There is a sense of the whole, a taste, a whisper…but large chunks remain obscure. I know this place...
June 16, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Humility is the antidote to division I have, in my past, been nasty to people. Arrogant. Dismissive. Certainly righteous. Superior. The seeds of any form of racism, sexism, fundamentalism….might come from the same ground. The place where we think we are superior to,...
June 15, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development
Not needing, not seeking, not searching is a beautiful way to walk the Earth On this day one year ago Tony and I had our first not-a-date date. We went for a pizza, my favourite food, and a glass of red at a local beachside cafe. We shared food and talked for hours....