October 4, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The tension between We know great love because we know all that is not love. Pain, isolation, rejection. We know great beauty because we know all that is not beauty. Trees felled in their thousands, giant pits to extract something deemed more precious than the beauty...
September 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The flavours of exhaustion Grief sucks everything out, leaving an infinite black cavity. Fear desiccates, our interiors shredded into micro fragments, the lizard in us hyper-reactive. Anxiety is walking a tightrope across a chasm of broken glass. A singular focus....
September 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Tracking energy flow This morning I went for a surf. The waves were all over the place, here, there, inconsistent. It was like trying to read a map while riding a downhill mountain bike. I did manage to catch a great wave. It was luck and timing. Certainly not skill...
September 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
No one can take our power away Many of us have a warped relationship to power. We have difficulty naming our power, which is always available, yet rarely recognised. We see those who are actually wielding force as being powerful. Does brute strength or welding...
September 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Never stop challenging your own beliefs Remember when you believed in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Do you remember how you believed with absolute conviction? Remember how this belief was reinforced by ritual, your trusted parents, and culture? What changed your...
September 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Open mind open heart Consider a decision you are making. Pause. Ask yourself, if you dare, how open is your mind is to the whole field of this decision. Is it closed completely, is there a window of possibility that you could change your mind? If not, if you are...