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...
August 30, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Patronising Patronising – to be ostentatiously superior and condescendingly favourable. When I was a young parent my daughter informed me that I often made her feel ashamed. This came as a shock. It was not intended. By informing me of her experience I had...
April 9, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Healing and evolution come with confrontation I have made mistakes. Said horrible things to others. Been mean. I have stood on a platform of righteousness without even beginning to understand the perspective and experience of those I disdainfully look down upon....
November 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Smart Stupid I used to think being smart was the ticket to almost everything. That story about working hard, being smart and as a result success arrives on a platter, how I swallowed that story, hook, line and sinker. Like most things, these simple myths strip...
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...
