July 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
A structure for freedom Time: The Chronos and Kairos dance Our human-constructed, separate from Nature, world lives on Chronos time. Linear. Dated. Tick tock. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our separation from Nature has also been a separation from Kairos time....
July 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The fracturing of bits of us For me, life as practice is the only way. There is no separation between work and play. A morning session in the surf is as developmental as the crucial conversation that needs to be had. Different. But extraordinarily rich. Working with...
July 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The burden of proof If I have enough fame I can make up preposterous stories and many will believe me. That does not make my preposterous story true. We have a scientific method for a reason. It is to test, retest and validate a theory. Our love of fame and drama...
July 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you get a turkey to vote for Christmas? You start a culture war and have people vote against their own interest by stoking fear of the minority ‘other’ stealing their job, house, toilet privacy or opportunity. With the great magician’s sleight of hand, as...
July 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
I want genuine wisdom It is easy to give our sense-making and power away to a ‘somebody.’ A ‘somebody’ with a title – be that a truly earned title or one created out of thin air – or ‘somebody’ with a gazillion followers. To think that this person,...
July 6, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Acts of great love To dare to care enough to call people to account, to hold them to a better, yet to-be-expressed version of themselves, is an act of love. When people react with venom, when they blame, justify, and strike out, this is the soft wound they harbour,...