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....
April 29, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Dancing with change is life The nature of change has us go from stable and satisfied to questioning and uncertain. What was once solid and real becomes rocky. As we exit the certain stable stage, the ground we walk upon appears to trip us. If it is a deep phase state...
April 26, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Novelty is natural design I am a practising generalist, or, as I prefer to say, a comprehensivist. Understanding the whole, the larger systems at play, has been a passion of mine from an early age. I refused, even when it would have been more profitable, to fall into...
