October 3, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What about it gets under my skin My practice for today is to take one behaviour that I see in another that drives me nuts, makes me mad or creates a visceral reaction. To look at that behaviour with clinical eyes, as if it were a patient on a table. What about it gets...
October 2, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Change words change context Paul Hawken, editor of Project Drawdown, says climate change isn’t happening to us, it is happening for us. This one small change in a word changes everything. In the first instance, when something is happening to us, we are in many...
October 1, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The seeds of humility When we look back at aspects of our life we might see behaviours that have us cringe. Moments or months of selfishness, arrogance, hubris, fluency in criticism, entitlement, even cruelty. If we can see these behaviours we have the capacity to end...
September 30, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
When life has beaten us down It was blowing a gale on the beach this morning. Our instinct when we turn into the headwind is to contract and hunch, to reduce the mass of our body that is exposed to the force. This instinct is strong. To contract against the headwind...
September 27, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Expand our being The other day I was working with a client asking him to expand from the limited view of the “I”. To step to the edge of the Universe and look back at self, with the infinite possibility in this space between him as an “I” and...
September 25, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Today I celebrate kindness Today I celebrate all the people who stand true against all temptations. Those people who say thank you to the wait staff and the person at the checkout. Who treat others with respect, no matter what their circumstance. Who reaches a hand...
