December 4, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pacing Sometimes you do not know the skills that are inherent within you until you are tested. One of my skills is the skill of pacing. I know how to pace myself at the start of a marathon to be sure I finish the marathon. I only learned this by running many marathons...
December 3, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Settling I love the visual of the jar of muddy water. All shook up. A jumble. Chaos. Molecules colliding everywhere. Put the jar down on the table, and slowly, with the passage of time, everything settles. Sleep does this. As does gazing for long moments out the...
December 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Time for a change It is always a good time for change. Change is life. Some changes take us through a terrible crucible, where loss, pain, humiliation, devastation or cruelty strip every shred of redundancy from us. Other changes are delightful, fun and exciting. I...
November 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The perpetual game A victim cries, poor me. A persecutor yells, it is all your fault. And a rescuer is endlessly looking for someone to help often sacrificing themselves in the process. This cycle of collective destruction was first described by Stephen Karpman in the...
November 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Smart Stupid I used to think being smart was the ticket to almost everything. That story about working hard, being smart and as a result success arrives on a platter, how I swallowed that story, hook, line and sinker. Like most things, these simple myths strip...
November 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Awareness arising It starts with a realisation that something held as true might not be. At first we might not like it, this creeping suspicion. So we do our best to block it. Truth and growing up are persistent and will defy our attempts to suppress them, even if...
