August 27, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Asking for help One of the very hardest lessons I had to learn was how to ask for help. As the whip-smart kid in school, not knowing, being stuck, not having the inner resources, were hard to admit. Being a single mother broke the back of that angst. It was impossible...
August 25, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What are we too old for? In a conversation this morning someone said they were too old now to train for triathlon, which was where we met a long time ago. The obvious unspoken was that I had just returned from a run. What are we too old for? How easy is it to diminish...
August 24, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Heroics is a daily act. Done in partnership The great blockbuster movies of our time, such as Star Wars, might seem to follow the archetypal pattern of the hero’s journey. This mono-myth has been conscripted by our age as the great story, the pattern under the...
August 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The relationship between Buckminster Fuller would say Unity is Plural, at minimum two. To up, down. In, out. Black, white. Right, wrong. Good, bad. Me. You. Do I exist unless I have a relationship with at least another? Be that a person, a tree, the ocean. It is in...
August 21, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To know in our body being To criticise from the stalls is easy. We can be brilliant in our opinions and judgements. To be an active participant, to get into the arena, is to experience a whole different world. Until someone has done the work, been in the arena,...
August 20, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
No choice is free If you want to value your humanity, to value others humanity, to value that which makes life possible, please stop using the words ‘this is free’ in any context. Free and freedom comes from the etymology meaning beloved and friend. Being free is...
