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....
May 18, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Observing our triggers We all have them. The soft squishy places that react when prodded. Triggers manifest in different ways for everyone. The sudden flare of temper. The visceral reflex. The withdrawal. The defensive stance. The satire. Even cruelty. One moment we...
May 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Held to account If we do not hold ourselves to account, who will? If our team does not hold us to account – to the promises we have made – who will? What happens next if we get away with shitty behaviour repeatedly? More shitty behaviour? It is hard to...
