February 20, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Progress I have been learning to surf. It is a very tricky sport as not only is there the skill of surfing, there is the skill of reading waves and adapting to conditions. The conditions are never the same. It has been a very bumpy journey. Some days I am in despair....
February 18, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Misunderstood We cannot know why another person does something unless we ask. We can guess. We can project. We can make assumptions. Until we ask, it is a crapshoot. Until we are willing to ask, to understand, to get the full context, we have only our own story about...
February 17, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
To be a steward leader As a new parent – of a child, an animal, an enterprise – we hold this most precious being/idea in our hands, and while we might have dived deep into books on ‘how to,’ the truth is we have no idea what to do next. So we figure it out...
February 16, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The dance between our own edges On one side we have the hardness, judgement, strongly held opinions. And on the other an ocean of compassion, generosity and kindness. On one side we have fear, contraction, our victimised powerless self. And of the other, our bold...
February 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Finding gratitude in the mundane The thousand and one things we step over every day. Taken for granted. This is how entitlement and the superior taint of privilege are generated. When we discount the mundane. Our ability to move on the legs or the absence of legs we...
February 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Times of Neoliberal Autocracy. Truly strange bedfellows Nothing can breed violence like scarcity It is the bellwether of uprising. An increasing divide between the haves and have-nots. Hungry – for food, for access, for good education and health care, for...