December 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Exploring the edges of enough What is enough? Enough love, enough laughter, enough beauty? Perhaps enough money, possessions, property? Rights? Freedom? When I was invited as a guest to the favelas in Brazil enough was very little and yet laughter led everywhere. At...
December 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Responsibility and consequence One week ago Australia was free of community transmission of COVID. Life was pretty normal. On Wednesday in Sydney two cases were reported. By that afternoon that was 5. Just as in the state of Victoria earlier in the year, these cases...
December 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All plans of mice and men If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that plans are OK, but the moment we become attached to them working as we expected, the plan owns us. When a plan owns us, when our expectations are entangled with the plan unfolding as we want it, then...
December 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The best way to live Chatting with a very long-term friend yesterday and she said that it was so good that my dreams have come true. I took a moment and then said my dreams had not come true because I had stopped having dreams a long time ago. This is not a bad...
December 17, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
An ode to rest One of the key elements of steward leadership is holding the shape and space for that which you are stewarding. While this appears to be a passive role, it is entirely active, requiring deep intentionality, clarity of mind, constant scanning of the...
December 15, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I found myself asking this question yesterday Do the elected leaders of my country, Australia, the USA, and the UK, actually want democracy? There is a form of capitalism that sees any restraint on accumulation of capital, be that through taxes, regulation, public...
