July 7, 2015 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rare is the true champion. The one who strives valiantly. And if he fails, he at least fails while daring greatly. In Australian Sport this last week, the women’s Football team, the Matildas, against the odds, made it through a knockout round against Brazil to...
June 11, 2015 | Economies for justice, Personal Development
Debt is a great way to keep people docile “Debt is a great way to keep people docile”, Dr Jason Hickel In this blistering and lucid article on the delusions of microfinance, Dr Hickel exposes a model that the West have looked on so favourably these last...
June 10, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is my relationship to the unknown? The false gods of security What is my relationship to the unknown? How comfortable am I sitting on the precipice of the emergent? Am I able to stand in the tension of uncertainty? And if so, for how long? How much is my life...
June 2, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Left or right? At the crossroads of decision. When not deciding is the path We all reach a place in our lives where we are torn between two or three major decisions. Where everything appears to be directing us to choose. Yet there are times when to choose to go left...
May 28, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We all are born unique yet most of us die a copy I heard this wonderful quote* on my predawn walk this morning. We all are born unique yet most of us die a copy. I thought about that, about how when I first became a parent I assumed my child would be born a blank...
May 18, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How to massively expand your Universe – overcoming rejection Some time ago, I was sitting with my mentor, and he said that I had to get over my fear of rejection. This fear, he had observed, was what was stopping me from having everything I desired. I knew he...