August 23, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To know humility is to be powerful We came to Sri Lanka for adventure and to spend two weeks in one place surfing. Today I had a case of the yips. Fear ruled my head. Tony, my partner and amazing surf coach, reassured me that the waves are different today, requiring...
August 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I love multiculturalism Watching the Olympics, the Japanese and Italian Brazilians in the men’s Park Skate, and the Aussie Japanese fourteen-year-old gold medal winner for Park Skate…these kids are the future. The winners and other placeholders celebrate as if they...
August 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Challenging the status quo It is because life is constantly emergent that we must challenge the status quo as a practice. When we sit back and get into that comfortable space of same same, when we resist change in all areas – our learning, physical development,...
August 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Are you kind I am an immigrant I have lived on the threshold of homelessness. I know what it feels like to have the ‘heavy’ show up at your door to repossess your car. I know what it is like to walk the lands of the West and never feel looked at for my melanin. I...
August 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A panel of white men Imagine this scene. A group of privileged white men set the stage as being the leaders of rethinking how humanity progresses. Sadly, this scene is the predominant scene still at play. The same thinking that got us to this point, absent any...
July 30, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is progress? We have been brainwashed to think a particular way about success, progress and advancement. Success has meant accumulation, wealth and power. It rarely considers relational quality, health, and service. Advancement is often screwed to technological...
