February 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Caught in the weeds We tend to get caught in the weeds when we are in unhappy places. All of the one thousand things that are not working. All the backstabbing and blaming. The stories of this and that. The drama trap is an easy place to hide from truth. Keeping the...
February 4, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We have to name the elephant We skirt around naming the elephant, as if to do so will protect us from facing it. That giant truth sitting in front of us that no one wants to talk about. We say nice things, we sugarcoat. The aim is not to hurt. To be sensitive. What we...
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...
