In the face of the unfathomable, the most powerful thing that one can do is to seek hope, joy, and connection. It doesn’t make the nonsensical, sensible. It doesn’t make the pain go away, but it does add energy, it…
The absolute joy of writing this letter to you each week is the generosity that comes back. After last week’s letter I was given copies of Oliver Sacks’ autobiography On The Move and Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees.…
Can you believe that this is the 40th edition of Strategy, Soul and Self? I am feeling quite proud of myself. Indulge me, but I am. Each week for the last 40, I have sat down and drawn on my…
Wow, it’s the last Sunday of September. What a year! This painting by Alexandra Karakashian has captured the year for me. Today’s subject was inspired by an elder of mine who would ask me, “What have you done recently with your position…
It is Sunday again… At the time that I press send it is still momentarily before dawn. In the last few weeks, I have noticed that it is lighter and lighter at this time. Southern Hemisphere summer is on its…
Good morning I hope that you are well and that you had a great sleep last night. I had a plan for today’s letter that hasn’t worked out. The reading that I did, didn’t deliver what I had hoped, so I…
Good morning friends Can you believe that this month my coaching practice is two years old and that today is this newsletter’s 80th edition? I have been fortunate to coach an amazing array of people – founders of businesses of all…
Good morning. I hope you’re well and that someone is bringing you coffee in bed… Six weeks ago, I wrote to you from Inside Covid. A week later, as Covid spat me out, I wrote that I’m Still Standing. Since then, we…
We will spend most of our adult lives working. Yet, study after study tells us that most of us are just turning up for work. The work that we do to generate our livelihoods does not fully engage us. That…
It’s been a week! I hope that you’re well. If you’re feeling like you need a wry smile, you’ll love Reza Farazmand’s dry sense of humour. While parts of the world were being weird about South Africa’s scientific excellence, the…
Good morning humans Forgive the oddball greeting. I have been immersed in Tade Thompson’s excellent sci-fi Wormwood trilogy. I came to know about it reading The eight must read African Novels to get you through lockdown. Although I am not a massive…
This delicate sculpture by Atang Tshikare will make your heart smile. He created it in the heart of lockdown. It speaks of life, of growth, of the possibility of renewal. I thought we all need to be reminded of that possibility.…