What’s real? Take a second look to find the White Hot Truth
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Communication
What appears real in our hurry flurry world often isn’t. Authenticity is big. Being real is in.
Not being true is passe. Being fake is to be a flake.
How do you tell the difference though? What appears shiny and true can either be a golden nugget or a trashy piece of styrofoam.
Making time to [...]
Tags: authenticity, change management, Creativity, danielle laporte, firestarter, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors, white hot truth
Take a deep breath & remember to exhale
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Learning & Development
To get the things you’ve never had
Do the things you’ve never done
(Sign posted in a store I visited while at a community festival today.)
If you define ‘things’ beyond just stuff this is powerful.
It’s also timely.
I’m embarking on some radical new learning for some new business goals. Most of the time I’m jazzed up with excitement [...]
Tags: business, Business development, change management, Creativity, leap of faith, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors
Kick the rabbit in the butt & suspend disbelief – it’ll lead to breakthroughs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Creativity
Can you walk on water? These guys can. Check out the video below to see how they do it.
“You have to believe … it’s not impossible.” “We’re discovering it as we go along.” Some of it “was by mistake.” “It takes a lot of practice.” “If you fall down try again.” All words of advice [...]
Tags: breakthrough, change management, Creativity, disbelief, extreme sport, learning, lee-anne ragan, liquid mountaineering, rock.paper.scissors, walking on water
What does it take to win Olympic gold in women’s ski cross?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Creativity
On the last day of the Every Woman conference I got to listen to Ashleigh McIvor, the first Olympic gold winner of the women’s ski cross at the recent Winter Olympics. She’s tall and lithe and she had some surprising things to say.
How often do you think she thought about winning gold?
Would it surprise you [...]
Tags: ashleigh mcivor, change management, Creativity, every woman, lee-anne ragan, olympics, rock.paper.scissors, vancouver, winter olympics, women's ski cross
When should I get a girlfriend says my 9 year old; identifying & escaping boxed in thinking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Communication, Parenting
I was looking forward to this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Both my husband and oldest kid were out of town, leaving some precious 1:1 time with my youngest. After dropping off my oldest at the ferry terminal to visit his grandparents my youngest and I headed back to the van, hand in [...]
Tags: change management, Creativity, learning, lee-anne ragan, 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
Fray or fringe worldview; you can choose
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict, Creativity
Recently I wrote a post about how to look at the edges of a carpet as a metaphor for life.
You know the bits of a carpet that aren’t neatly sewn up but rather hang there loosely at the edges? Do you see those bits as fray – as messy, a nuisance and unorganized?
Or do you [...]
Tags: Change, change management, Creativity, learning, lee-anne ragan, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, worldview
Fringe or Fray: how you see the edges affects how you see the core
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Conflict
I love lists. I love making them and checking them off. I like to think (some might say delude myself) that they help me have a sense of control over my life.
I can get a bit crazy when I feel I don’t have any control, when I’m unorganized, when I’m not sure where things are, [...]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, Creativity, four hour work week, learning, lee-anne ragan, mess, organized, perfect mess, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, tim ferris