February 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Belonging and becoming The maturing stages of belonging We learn that being solo in our personal or working lives is lonely. We long for a tribe, to find our people, to become a part of something. While we are still in the process of becoming – when our...
February 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Permission and affirmation When we are in a process of change, making big decisions is scary. Will I make the right choice? What if I do not and everything goes wrong? The pressure and anxiety can be extreme. In our desire not to be fully responsible for our...
January 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are better when we work together Some people are skilled at taking the noxious poison out of situations and turning it into fruitful fields. They have the ability to inhale hate and anger and exhale love. Some people step into pressure situations and become the...
January 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Emergence and structure are complementary Not too much structure that creativity is stifled. Yet enough structure to create tension and polarity, which is essential to existence. Unbounded we are like molecules released from a very small container into the...
January 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clear requests are a transmission Making a request is not the same as a demand. A request does not hold an expectation that the answer will be yes. A demand holds the expectation that the answer will be yes. Indeed, a demand insists upon it. When we are making a...
January 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What matters most The naivety of an easy life has its counterfoil. We lose perspective of what matters most. Events that bring us to our knees sharpen our focus on what matters most. It is the tragi-comedy and paradox of being human. Only when we are forced through...