January 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Fear changes as we grow up As we evolve towards maturity so does our fear. A childish fear is the monster under the bed. Yet often children throw themselves into precarious situations physically. Fearless. A teen fear could be that we are accepted, liked, seen to be...
January 18, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Deconstructing illusions Does a fish see water? Life is emergent. We cannot see what we cannot see until we take a different perspective. Every perspective holds a partial truth. No one perspective is completely right. When we finally see the obvious we wonder how we...
January 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Power, applied appropriately, needs responsibility and accountability Many of us do not want that kind of responsibility. We do not want to be in the spotlight. We do not want to be in the firing line. So we avoid stepping into leadership. Wonder why we have so many...
January 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Do the ends justify the means? Some of our standard platitudes need cross-examination. Indeed, we might cross-examine our core beliefs on a regular basis. Think of a belief you held as sacred ten years ago that you no longer believe. Knowing that we change our minds...
January 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Sovereignty and liberty When people feel oppressed, when the experience is that there is a set of rules for one class that gives them privileges that are beyond the access of other classes, the longing for liberty and freedom becomes ever louder. Yet so many of us in...
January 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Thank you to strangers who toil to right wrongs There are so many strangers I will never know who toil to right wrongs. Some of these people do so at huge risks, risks that may end their lives. The people in Ukraine. Far away from Australia, Ukraine’s loss to...