June 9, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
In the waiting room There are times in life when we wait. All of life has periods of gestation. This time can be a tumult of emotions. Patience, frustration, anxiety, peace, surrender. All roiling through us, quite often tangled into each other. Gestation is for...
June 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What can I do? When we see suffering and pain around us, when we look at the operating system behind our current world order, the question, what can I do, calls. And will it be enough? These questions arise from a place that knows we can make a difference. Confusion...
June 6, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Constraints are the field of creativity “Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Gustave Flaubert For so long I resisted self-discipline. I wanted freedom. I wanted to feel I could do anything I wanted, when I wanted....
June 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Truth and Reconciliation One of the wonderful actions I admired in post-apartheid South Africa was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Context creates bad behaviour. People do terrible things under the influence of culture, alcohol, or tribal/goup consensus. I...
June 3, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Bad anger good anger The energy of maintaining bad anger is all-consuming. Something you do not realise until you let it go. If you can. Projected blind anger, anger that refuses to listen. Anger baked in superiority. Anger projected to such a degree that in its...
June 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Ask for the impossible Ask. For help. For support. To be held. For feedback. Failure to ask is a form of rejection. People want to participate. To give. Be included. If you are that nervous about asking, give the person you are asking easy permission to say no to the...
