December 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Respond to data not self talk – taking bold action Time to take that big action. Get beyond the ideas stage and get something into the world. But your self-talk is very compelling and keeping you from starting. I need to have more certainty about x. Maybe if I...
December 3, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
One question that rules them all Do this, do that, go here, there. Be this. Don’t do that. Eat this. Don’t eat that. Get up early. Sleep less. Go hard. Take time off. Social media. No social media. Get a partner. Do it solo. Choose this. Not that. Head...
November 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Misunderstood as a visionary pioneer entrepreneur Just spent the morning at a business and community meeting to discuss what needs to happen in our city of 500,000. The meeting structure allowed people to have their say. 98% of the conversation was on the immediate...
November 21, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Great art, great business, great design know the experience of being on our knees Great art, great design, great business is forged from a place that knows what it is like to be on our knees. At this point, when everything is peeled away, who we are at core and why we...
November 20, 2013 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The fear never goes away, really. Make fear your friend We think that when we ‘make’ it, the fear will stop. Or that as we do years and years of personal development, it might stop. Certainly, it can lessen, and we can learn strategies to circumvent the...
November 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Yoda vs the Scrat. Trying hard is the wrong approach A curious event has happened in the past few weeks at the end of my squad swim session. It is summer here in Australia, and even at 7 a.m., the sun is shining, the temperature is up, and the water is perfect. Being...
