August 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Happiness is a choice Yesterday, a client asked me what happiness is for me. It is a question we might ask regularly, as the contours of happiness change with our lives. I answered – to be surrounded by people who love you and you love. To spend time doing your...
August 12, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
5 Practices for Syntropic Stewards 1. A set of inviolate, unbreakable, heart and soul-centred guiding principles and boundaries or self-disciplines. Underline. Unbreakable, so choose wisely as you will be tested. 2. Daily practice of tuning into your life and business...
August 11, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We do not value this enough Seen for our value feeds our soul. Money may feed our bellies, provide shelter and choices. But nothing replaces being truly seen for the value we are, uniquely. I wonder, if we have little to no money, what helps the most. Money. Or being...
August 5, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Success defined There is no definition of success without putting it into context. That context could be our age. In our twenties, what success looks and feels like may be radically different from what it looks like in our fifties. Or our circumstances, like: are we...
August 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A little theft When we rescue someone who needs to learn to rescue themselves, we enact a little theft. We take from them the opportunity to learn, grow and become self-reliant and responsible. The theft might make us feel good, as rescuing so often does. We might...
August 3, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When we give away our agency For the last few months, my learn-to-surf journey has taken a downward turn. For no apparent reason. As someone with a lifetime habit of looking at all aspects of my life without separation, I have found my daily sport to be a place of...