May 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Understanding fatigue I love the feeling of being physically spent. It provides a very different experience to mental or emotional fatigue. There is an inarguable quality to physical fatigue. Our body screams for rest. If our work is behind a computer, providing our...
May 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Fear is my teacher Collapsing context strips nuance. Fear is not bad. It is there to put a break on extreme risk with potentially fatal consequences. Propagating fear to diminish human optionality is to use fear as a weapon. A class of people know how to use the...
May 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To play the infinite game I have been contemplating my relationship with competition. The etymology of compete is from com – “with or together” and petere “to strive, seek.” I have been an athlete for most of my life. Running, swimming, triathlon. Recently...
May 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To be Complete From the online etymology dictionary Complete – “having no deficiency, wanting no part or element; perfect in kind or quality; finished, ended, concluded,” To be complete. Not wanting. To complete a body of work. A work of art. To know...
May 11, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Privilege’s complementary pair is responsibility I spent most of my youth ignorant of my privilege. It was normal life. Travel took me to places where I witnessed first-hand those who did not have the same access to health care, education, safety, and open...
May 10, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Remembering my privilege It is important to stop and consider our privilege. Privilege is so easy to take for granted. My birth parents. I was raised in a loving and safe family. I was and am loved. I was born an Australian – a country that quietly offers so...
