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How to Let Go of ‘Singing for your Supper’
The phrase ‘singing for your supper’, is older than the modern workplace and far older than LinkedIn ambition. In medieval towns, wandering minstrels arrived with no contract and no guarantee of welcome. If they wanted to eat, they performed. A song bought a bowl of stew. A story earned bread and butter. The arrangement was…
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Some Things Are Worth Rushing. Others Should Move Caterpillar Slow
I was watching Landman. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a grounded, character-driven series set in the oil fields of West Texas. Less spectacle, more consequence. A show about work, power, family, and the long shadows decisions cast over time. The drama doesn’t come from twists. It comes from what people live with. In one…
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In Favour of Giving Things Up (In Business)
Renunciation in personal life involves mentally letting go of unhealthy habits, attachments, and excessive desires to foster inner peace and spiritual growth. Practices include: Renunciation in business however, isn’t addressed quite as often. I’m not talking about sacrifice… or deprivation…or moral purity. I am talking about renunciation as the deliberate act of letting something go so that…

