July 31, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell “In Front of Your Nose,” Tribune (22 March 1946) We are all trapped in our inability to see what is in front of our nose. The capacity for objectivity and cool revision of...
March 5, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
Seduction and Courtship – why knowing the difference matters Seduction is the currency of our time. Clever campaigns invite us to believe that we are lesser humans for not having the hottest, newest “X”. Seduction is the constant barrage of images. Skinny,...
March 4, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
On being human. Seeing the world from our knees The extraordinary Parker Palmer wrote he was a “contemplative by catastrophe.” Krista Tippett, in an interview with Tim Ferriss, discussed wisdom and aging. And Alain de Botton talked with Krista Tippett about love and...
February 5, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strong views loosely held Strong views enable people to know what you stand for. When people know what you stand for, it allows them to choose engagement or not. Fundamentalist views are views that are closed to any possibility of change. There is no argument of any...
January 31, 2017 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
A return to Truth and Integrity – daring to care One week into Trump’s presidency, if you have been living in a similar world to mine, you might have been questioning the meaning of big, keystone words like Integrity and truth. Words are symbols and have...
January 29, 2017 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Arrested development – two behavioural diseases we urgently need to inoculate ourselves from Step overs and blind spots We step over so much. We do not speak up when we need to. And then get upset when we get more of what we need to speak up about. Then we get...
