June 25, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Subtle uses of power over Imagine this scenario. Someone has made an accusation towards you or has challenged you. You do not understand what they mean, or what they are referring to. So, rather than attack as a knee-jerk response, you ask for clarity. They return...
February 18, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Misunderstood We cannot know why another person does something unless we ask. We can guess. We can project. We can make assumptions. Until we ask, it is a crapshoot. Until we are willing to ask, to understand, to get the full context, we have only our own story about...
September 6, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The right to speak Every human has the right to speak. If we are discussing issues, those with the greater right to speak are those who have lived in the mire of the very issue we are addressing. The ones who wear the scars. Those still immersed in the issue. Those...
May 20, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rights must always go hand in hand with responsibilities The older I get the more I realise that so much of the story of incidents is suppressed. We get the partial truth. A perspective or two, not the whole. Our role as grown-ups is to observe and ask questions. To...
March 11, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Expectations and assumptions…is there a distinction? An expectation has a future-based focus. To anticipate, look forward to, to regard as about to happen. To assume is in the present. I assume this now without proof. I assume you said this, did that, want this....
