December 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Embracing, Editing, Removing, Ending I invite you to consider this process as we end 2025. For each category, pick one, two or three only. Embracing Before each surf session, a dedication to having fun no matter what. Anger as fuel, laughter as the ground, and...
December 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The eternal victim If we find ourselves in a situation where we are repeatedly attacked, we can do many things. *Continue, blindly and persistently, to point the full measure of blame at the accuser. Blame is easy. Denying any form of culpability is immature. Yet it...
December 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When I dare to be powerful “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde A mother or father will step into the fire without thinking about themselves to save a...
December 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Otherisation When we other people – politicising diversity and difference. When we make the other wrong. We do this in the school playground. You may have done it, or been the subject of it being done to you. The nerd. The ‘in’ group. The dyslexic. It hurts...
December 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A few relational frames that matter Every action has an effect. Do we consider the effect when we take the action? We are responsible for the effect as much as we are for the action. The majority of people and enterprises refuse to take responsibility. People write...
December 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Choices. Intersections. Mistakes My little dog sleeps at my feet. One of our chickens, Lilly, just laid an egg and, in her usual fashion, is telling the world how wonderful she is, chortling away. The heat that was going to arrive has gratefully been swept into...
