December 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
My theory of systems change 1. Understand the system. Few people actually take the time to do this. 2. Get comfortable and familiar with complexity as a priority. Complexity is complex. Therefore challenging. Our default is to revert to simplicity or reductionism....
December 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clarity leads to power Lost and confused, our minds fall down into a spiral that can become self-generating, keeping us trapped. Confusion begets confusion. Similarly, when we are feeling overwhelmed. Too much going on, a million thoughts bouncing around seeking our...
December 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
See the real threat Historian Heather Cox Richardson uses the following metaphor. Imagine we have ten people, and for the most part, these ten people want a good life – not excessive – a home, some extra income to cover holidays, health care, quality...
December 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I know How many times in my life have I said the words, I know. Too many times. I have been thinking a lot about superiority and righteousness as the generator codes of so many ills in the world. White supremacy, racism, intellectual supremacy, emotional supremacy...
November 30, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Not friendly for humans It is a wild day, stormy, rainy, windy. And humid. The ocean is chaos. Not friendly for humans. The amplification of chaos in the world is just getting started. We must learn to know it and find the strange attractor in the swirl and confusion....
November 25, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The shadow of hypocrisy You can be an immigrant and then insist there be no more immigrants. You can point a finger at corruption in the ‘others’ and then step over it in your tribe. You can claim massive tax cuts and then cry that those on welfare are the ones...
