April 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Arrogance I know you well. “disposed to give oneself undue importance, aggressively haughty” Arrogance is expressed in so many different ways. Intellectual arrogance is a superiority of knowledge and intellectual ability. It is a weapon used against those who...
April 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Notice my hypocrisy If I list the places and behaviours that I rail against the most – hypocrisy, cruelty, exploitation, righteousness, injustice – where do these reside in me? Where am I the hypocrite? Where am I cruel? Whom or what do I exploit? How am...
April 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What are you devoted to Devotion…a word that rolls, plump with deliciousness, off my tongue. Not devotion in a religious sense, but devotion in its origins, to formally vow my attention to something. Vow my attention to something. What is that something? Is it the...
April 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you deal with narcissists I was asked the question during the Dare to Care workshop, class #1, how do you deal with narcissists? Ideally, if you have a choice, you deal with narcissists by removing them from your life. In other words, you do not engage with...
April 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Check our assumptions Twice in the last week, people have made assumptions about me, putting me on trial without a single question asked of me. I was judged guilty both times. Curiosity is a wonderful thing. Why did you do that, Christine? Tell me what you have done...
March 29, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The goal is Empire I have written many times about Little Atrocities. Hannah Arendt coined the term, the banality of evil. When evil becomes normalised. Like Hannah, I have been fascinated by the journey to evil. It doesn’t happen in one fell swoop; evil happens one...