November 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Standards and expectations High standards are not the same as having high expectations. An expectation is a future event. A standard is a way of being. My standard is to be rigorous with my honesty, to act with integrity, and be as precise as possible with my words....
November 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are democracy Democracy is between a rock and a hard place. Do we vote for this person or that? This party or that one? As all parties roll over and shrug in the face of genocide. I think of those Palestinians in Northern Gaza, alive now but dead this week,...
November 1, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
That first Little Atrocity is the most dangerous In Australia, every news report commences with the US election. I have US election fatigue, and I am confident I am not alone. There is a scale of ethics and morality in politics. To be in integrity is a practice. The...
October 29, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Indigenous education, eldership and rites of passage Adults are supposed to keep growing up, becoming wiser, more mature in responses, not so reactive and reflexive. There is no – I have arrived at some endpoint of my development. There is only the journey....
October 26, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I don’t know how to do this What a beautiful place to be, not knowing how to do something. An adventure of discovery awaits. In the solving for, we stumble, make mistakes, recalibrate. In this age of search, the solutions to most things are one or two clicks away....
October 25, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Navigating between In one inhale, my anger roils. I want to scream to the depths of my being against the atrocities enacted in my name by my and other Western governments. While my rage engulfs, my heart breaks. In the next inhale, the well of grief and heartbreak...
