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...
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...
