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...
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...
