September 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Creating the structure for a whole life The nature of life is emergent, towards creativity. There is a generative function to existence that seeks novelty. When this generative function stops we move into decay, be that decay of body, mind or spirit. For this to...
August 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
How to fly higher The paradox is that it is the things that keep us centred and grounded that will enable us to fly higher. Scattered energy, scattered focus, undisciplined thinking…zero structure…these are the things that keep us from going higher, further… Without...
July 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Time to think Perhaps in our overloaded lives, in the addiction to busy, we have made time to think a luxury. I have found myself shutting down when I feel a need to think emerging, as if it is an alien. The discipline has been to resist the shut down, and to open...
June 29, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Economics Subservient to Education Imagine that? That instead of education as subservient to economics, we flipped and had economics be subservient to education? We know our education system is broken. Young creative minds are taken into a conformity enforcing machine...
July 24, 2009 | Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The piece I wrote this week on my experience during the 2009 Kokoda Challenge (a 96km run over one day) created such a significant and overwhelming response from people. I never set out to strategically inspire people or to move them to tears. I just write as I...
