December 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I was wrong I made a mistake. I apologise. Simple words. Hard to speak. The problem with a world where lies are the currency of power is that to admit a mistake is distrusted, even if it is sincere. Not only distrusted, but ridiculed. That is the order of cynicism...
November 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Adaptation I am not a city person. I find crowds exhausting. I spend most of my days in happy solitude. Yet here I am, roaming the streets with millions of others, standing in queues for this and that. The noise, the lights, the sounds, and the endless sea of people....
November 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
How comfortable are you with making mistakes? With getting it wrong? Screwing up? If you are not comfortable with being wrong, stop attempting to innovate. Innovation requires being wrong, making mistakes, looking a fool. In a culture that maligns mistakes with...
September 21, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Making new mistakes Our culture shames mistake making. This is tragic. Mistakes mean we are learning, seeking, inventing, innovating. Wrapped in a mistake free life is entropic. On the edge, where aliveness lives, we will make mistakes. If we are smart, we will not...
July 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I made a mistake. I am sorry Why are these words so challenging? First of all, these words are hard to speak. And secondly, we make it hard for an apology to be received. When a political leader lies, cheats, or is hypocritical, it is easy to be enraged. But in this...
