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It takes time to grow some-thing from apparently ‘no-thing’. No amount of believing otherwise, will actually make the process from germination to fruition happen in a heartbeat. Our society’s addiction to ‘quick fixes’ is based on a state of mind in which we believe that …

Creativity is great but it ain’t anything without follow through. Having an abundance of fabulous ideas is no more than useless, unless we have the capacity to turn them into something that is …is what? Useful? Meaningful? Marketable? Desirable? For our creating to be anything, …

Breaking old patterns to create transformational change.
Nothing about a caterpillar tells you that it will become a butterfly. All that it is, all that it was, gives birth to a creature of such delicate nature that one could barely have imagined it into being. It …

So the theme this month is ‘women in technology’.  Hmmmm.  Maybe I am one of those women in technology? After all, here I am writing in an online magazine?  In that question, clearly I am perverting the intention of the theme…. But hey ho… I …

Returning from a week of working away from home, sitting on a jam-packed train; I am dog-tired and wondering how on earth I can pull together this month’s article. I appear to have no threads to pull on, so instead I decide to sit back, …

Recently I have been prompted to explore the relevance and reality of competition and how it has played out in my personal life, my relationships and how I see it showing up in the economy in the wider world. With regards to the latter, I …