May 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
What we really desire Let’s speak of desire. Not the packaged form of desire that our culture reveres, which is more akin to addiction and superficial want. Not the desire of lust, which is a sign of the hollow shell of our emptiness. But desire, the deepest...
May 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Healthy polarity creates wisdom Don’t become a well-rounded person. Become a thoroughly spiky person, says Bruce Sterling. I might propose a middle ground. Choose the spiky areas that you want to cultivate. Total honesty is impossibly cruel. Total honestly says you...
May 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Fear of age and breaking This may be the first time in over 2000 of these Beauty of Beginnings blogs that I have featured myself in the sunrise. The conditions were just right to walk, fully clothed, out to the point of Snapper Rocks. From this place, surfers launch...
May 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The work of wisdom is a commitment It is easy to get seduced by the obvious. To jump to conclusions. For this and other reasons, one of the disciplines in Syntropic World is to go back to Source, to inquire into the root and origin of the idea, project, word,...
May 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Prejudice lives in siloed contexts We all have jumped to conclusions well before having the whole story. If one data point triggers us, how often are we hijacked to assume that the data point is evidence of the whole? I have done this and had others do the same to...
May 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
From one polar extreme to the other Watch a pendulum swing. From the extreme poles, it arrives at a middle ground. Equilibrium is never stillness. Equilibrium is a dynamic dance around the centre. But first, it swings from one hard pole to the opposite hard pole....
