August 5, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Perhaps we can learn from water I have been thinking a lot about water. Flow. Ease. Without effort. Water flows. And if it doesn’t have a path to flow, it stops for a time, until it either dries up or there is extra water added, and it flows again. If it comes to a...
August 5, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The obstacle is the way – the rocky road of entrepreneurship As a serial entrepreneur, I have tried many things and failed with almost equal frequency. At this, the very pointy end of my business gestation…of this I am sure…you have to want something...
August 1, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
And one day, all too soon, it will be gone A yacht sails north, walkers enjoy the dawn, the sun rises. Another day, another chance, another breath. It is such a simple thing…to wake each day. Yet it is truly a gift that we so often take for granted. How many people...
August 1, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rage, Rage against the dying of the light One of my favourite few lines of poetry is Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. While it is a poem about death, age, wasted life…these two lines come to me often, landing at those moments when I am most...
July 30, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Scared of becoming – 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 bungee I wrote in my journal this morning…I am scared of becoming… After years of dedication, a business is about to be launched…and I feel the fear sitting there. Fear of change of lifestyle, circumstance…of burying old ‘past...
July 30, 2014 | Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Who are you in the future? And why is this an important question to ask in the present? For two and a half years, I have been working on this project, which is now proudly called 2.23AM. However, there is truth in saying that I have been working on this for my entire...