May 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The supremacy virus From the simple to the extreme. We have the obvious ones. Colour, gender, financial wealth. We have the religious ones. One god better than another. One god offering heaven, or sex with many women, and the other eternal damnation. We have...
May 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Alive is a way of being To feel alive. Truly, outrageously, vibrantly alive. To build living enterprises. Living, changing, transforming relationships. To refuse the static, the entropic. To walk to the edge and play with risk. To inhabit alive is an investment in...
May 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Empire doesn’t serve humanity I was in the surf this morning, the most amazing sunrise and gentle, easy surf after weeks of bigger waves. My rhythm was out, as happens without reason. I was frustrated. More and more people arrived to surf, typical when there are...
May 21, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Undervaluing overvaluing We forget. Or take for granted. Discount. Debase. The value we provide. We feel shame for speaking to it. Or inflate our stories with ego missing connection to our truth. We undervalue the simple. Clean air. Birdsong. Flowing drinking water....
May 20, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Touching the humanity of the perpetrator The first step of the 7 Step Process of how to speak the radical truth with compassion – a central tool of the Dare to Care Workshop – is to ask ourselves what we want for the other – the person with whom we...
May 18, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
Making Progress Yesterday, I had a bad crash over the lip of a wave, hurting my arm. It was terrifying. Today I had a great surf session, the sun out for the first time in ages, the water temperature far too warm for May. Progress is slow, yet steady. I consider the...