February 28, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Jump One day I did a Bungy Jump, launching myself, arms spread wide in the perfect dive position, off a platform 200 feet over water. It was exhilarating. I had taken a friend to the Bungy jump, and then sat and watched about 15 people either jump or come back down,...
February 25, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Underneath doubt behind confusion Doubt erodes like rust, eating into the core of our being, the beauty of a project, the marvel of an idea. If we pause long enough to go beneath the doubt, we might find truth. Do we really trust ourselves? Do we know in our bones...
February 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Live fully now Perhaps in the end, we are only to live fully with what we have. To say yes to exactly the circumstances present. Even in tragedy, anger and vengeance will not bring back the dead. We get to choose how we show up today. Rather a life that buries the...
February 23, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What do you fear most in this life? This is the opening line of a book recommended by a dear friend, “The Great Work of Your Life” by Stephen Cope. Rare is it that I get completely stuck in the first question of a book, unable to move to the next sentence because I...
February 22, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Isolation is the enemy of wealth But first, what is wealth? Etymologically, wealth is well-being, happiness, prosperity and good health. Our current society has reduced the meaning to only one form. Financial. To be wealthy is to be whole and happy, not wanting in any...
February 20, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Smallest, simplest, consistently taken It is still there. This big goal, or this most worrying pattern of behaviour. The conversation you have had for years. Yet here we are, still in it, little to no progress made. What is the smallest, simplest step you can take...