April 7, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Then our true work in the world begins No one knows what will happen in the next second. It is in the second that life changes forever. We say yes. Or no. A phone call comes. Someone dies. Someone is born. Something precious breaks. Living on the very edge, the place...
April 2, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How strong is your Pattern Integrity as a leader? “Effective leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own selfishness and weakness and fears and get us to do harder, better, more important things than we can get ourselves to do on our...
March 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Winning doesn’t make you a great leader To win an election doesn’t a leader make. To win at business doesn’t a leader make. Yet we bow to this kind of authority, as if these (mostly) men are some awe-inspired demigod. Because they have mastered the...
March 19, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How we relinquish our authority to fear No one is exempt from fear. It comes in all shapes and sizes, from the wave of weakness that engulfs us like a tsunami, to the dull, sick feeling gnawing away on the fringes of our consciousness, to the prickle of skin. It keeps...
March 16, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In our apprenticeship we stay young and vital From Old French, apprendre- to learn, apprenticing as an act of reverence to life and our journey across its unexpected contours evokes much-needed humility. In medieval times, all craftspeople started as apprentices,...
March 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
More beautiful for having been broken A long time ago, a very important Shogun in Japan was given a beautiful pottery bowl as a gift. But in the passing from giver to receiver, the bowl fell to the floor and broke into pieces. The Shogun was a wise man, and instead of...
