May 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Are you strong enough to know you will be weakened by temptation one day? We all need guardians against our temptations. No human is strong enough to resist certain temptations, even if we think we are. Oscar Wilde said I can resist anything except temptation. The...
May 11, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I know integrity when I see it Because it comes without fanfare, drama, posturing, demand, or tantrums. Integrity is to hold shape. To be fully aligned, from deep in our marrow through our heart and head, no need for false or fake projections. A tree is integrity A...
May 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Shut down and hollowed out I was speaking to someone this week and asked if they had ever had a relationship with anyone where the relationship was safe enough for them to express their vulnerability. They said no. No one. Four decades of living, and no deep intimate...
May 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To confront To stand in front of. To be facing. Truth is hard. It requires us to confront. Until we do, we are at the effect of what we refuse to confront. To confront threatens everything. Our worldview. Our carefully constructed life. Our history. Our identity. The...
May 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Do no harm vs do less harm When we set an intention, for example, to do no harm, the intention needs to be aspirational. To do less harm is nice, yet it also has no definition. Less harm can be taking a step of the most minute proportions, a step that probably will...
May 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hard binaries Hard binaries are absolute. Very little in life is an absolute. Some absolute examples include. We are born. We die. We have placed absolutes hard binaries around many things because a spectrum removes simplicity and our perceived ability to control....