Where’s your off switch?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, training & development, Travel
When I was doing some training for the United Nations in East Africa a while back, some friends and I got together one night at a house to watch a movie and make cookies. The cookie dough never made it to the oven (a destination few cookie dough batches in my world meet) and the [...]
Tags: 24/7, health, off switch, united nations, Wellness
Those who laugh last (up to 7 years longer)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Humor & comedy
Having a happy disposition affects how long you live, up to 7 years longer than grumpy folk. Researchers at Wayne Statue University in Michigan looked at 230 pictures of major league baseball players from 1952. They categorized the pictures according to how much they were smiling and their laugh lines. They then looked at life [...]
Tags: biopsychoimmunoloyg, health, humor, Humor & comedy, laugh, laughter, learning, longevity, michigan, wayne state university, Wellness
More business savvy from Arlene Dickinson; don’t die at 60 with your millions
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness
Arlene Dickinson is smart, savvy and easy to listen to. She’s CEO of Venture Communications, ‘one of Canada’s largest marketing firms’. At a recent talk she gave, she was asked for her top advice. Here it is, plain and simple. ‘Thank god you don’t live in Haiti [or more recently earthquake stricken Chile]. We are [...]
Tags: arlene dickinson, business, chile, democracy, earthquake, entrepreneur, freedom, haiti, health, marathon, millionaire, philosophy, sprint, venture communications