May 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The working edges of your courage I was surfing this morning, and the waves were huge. I lost my nerve on two of them. Fear won. I was not alone. I think about the courage it takes to catch a huge wave. Sometimes, naiveté. Most of the time, skills developed over...
May 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Social politics To play the political game socially. Speak nice to their face and back stab at the first opportunity. Play the game of polite, when rudeness is the field. Smile, without sincerity, as the narcissist applauds himself. I look at the world where our...
May 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Transmuting trauma Knowing you carry trauma in your biology, from whatever the traumatising incident, or epistemic generational trauma, is to know your trauma needs to be addressed. Not everyone has the option to deliberately seek to get support in healing trauma. We...
May 8, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Actions to extricate your victim Notice anywhere in your world where patterns of oppression or struggle are on a repeat cycle. Look behind the story, even though it might be built on legitimate truth, and see if there is any element of ‘poor me’. Choose to...
May 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Adopting the identity of being a victim Some years ago, I found myself witnessing the subtle shadows of my inner victim, that part of me who had held the central reins of my being for most of my adult life. This is how she showed up. She lived in a story of me being...
May 6, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Due process Rounding up people and sending them to offshore concentration camps without due process is something everyone should be terrified of. It sits neatly in the ‘how to build an authoritarian regime’ playbook. Just because it is the ‘other’ today is no...
