Beauty comes …. beauty goes
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity, Wellness
My last post was about ‘beauty being in the eye of the editor.’
Important stuff. Serious stuff.
And…
because I like whimsy and because 1 of Rock.Paper.Scissors’ founding principles was and continues to be humour and improv, there’s always another side.
Tongue firmly planted in cheek, where are you on the beauty continuum?
Tags: beauty, dove, dove beauty campaign, evolution, learning, lee-anne ragan, modeling, reginald pike, rock.paper.scissors, yael staav
What’s beautiful is in the eye of the editor
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity, Wellness
Beauty is captivating. Beauty is compelling.
False beauty draws us slyly to its side. All the while whispering empty promises.
“Buy this ______ (fill in the blank with your choice: car, lipstick, dress, watch….) and you’ll be like me.“
True beauty reflects beauty back. Welcomes us up onto the same pedestal.
The dictionary definition of beauty is oddly crass [...]
Tags: beauty, dove, dove beauty campaign, evolution, lee-anne ragan, reginald pike, rock.paper.scissors, yael staav
Kindness doesn’t have to be huge, hairy and hard to reach (or teach)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, Wellness
Some things are complicated. Some things are complex. Some things though are simple. Deceptively simple.
Like kindness.
I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Thought Bubble – Kindness video for that reason. It’s not huge and hairy and hard to reach. Rather it’s simple, soft and within our grasp. It’s also easy to teach. Kindness is the ultimate ‘lead [...]
Tags: amy krouse rosenthal, capulet communications, Creativity, julie szabo, kindness, lee-anne ragan, Lloyd Budd, northern voices, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, thought bubble, wordpress
Because Laughing Matters
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humour, Wellness
I’m teaching a workshop on Friday called ‘Because Laughing Matters‘ at the Every Woman conference in Whistler, British Columbia. This is a topic dear to my heart. And if it’s not dear to your heart it should be because:
humour is strategic, it primes the brain for learning – when we’re laughing we’re using the most [...]
Tags: chuck hamilton, Creativity, Daniel Pink, every woman, Ford, humor, Humour, IBM, laugh, laughing matters, learning, lee-anne ragan, lizard brain, rock.paper.scissors, seth godin, whistler, Whole New Mind
Heaven doesn’t need harmonica players
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, Wellness
Andy Mackie, a retired horse trainer, had 9 heart surgeries. The resulting 15 prescriptions caused more problems than they were worth so he stopped taking them. That’s a lot of dough for a lot of drugs. So what did he do with the money he saved?
He figured he’d live for only about a month or [...]
Tags: andy mackie, haiti, harmonica, inspiration, jesse joshua watson, learning, lee-anne ragan, music, rock.paper.scissors
The road to success may be under construction but you should always be the site foreman
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Wellness
Danielle Wilson, the smart and savvy President and Founder of Sweet Peanut Clothing Company suggests “we should know what our picture of success looks like. We should know what we want and then build a picture of what that looks like.”
I really tuned in when she walked her talk by relating how she’d turned [...]
Tags: change management, danielle wilson, e-series, forum for women entrepreneurs, fwe, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors, success, sweet peanut clothing
Finding your flow, your work zone through dance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Human resources, Wellness
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we should dance” (anonymous).
I happen to LOVE to dance so this is a no brainer for me. Shaking it on the dance floor from time to time does more for my stress level than a week at a spa. I simply [...]
Tags: all i ever needed to know, business strategy, change management, Creativity, dance, finding your tribe, lee-anne ragan, marcus buckingham, robert fulghum, rock.paper.scissors, seth godin, the truth about you, tribe, zone
When scales don’t tell the truth- how do you judge success?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Wellness
I’m graduating from the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs E-series program soon and the other day I tried on a dress that I want to wear to the party. I was trying it on because it was too big and I needed to have it measured to take in.
That was my first shocker. It fit. Well.
My [...]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, Creativity, e-series, exercise, forum for women entrepreneurs, lee-anne ragan, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, scale, success, tim ferris
Business Strategy & Lizards
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Communication, Wellness
I have been participating in the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs E-Series program since January. It’s like a mini-MBA for women business owners. It kicks business butt. We’ve heard a variety of speakers on a variety of topics (see below for a listing with links).
What’s been a common challenge however is to find time to take [...]
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Samba lessons from Brazil
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel, Wellness
I was recently in a traditional Samba club called Democraticos in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. I was in Rio to do cultural intelligence training for the United Nations and one night, post-conference, a bunch of us gathered in Lappa, a district of Rio.
Think people. Lots and lots and lots of people. People filling the streets, [...]
Tags: brazil, Creativity, dancing, following, leading, learning, lee-anne ragan, rio de janeiro, rock.paper.scissors, samba, united nations, world urban forum