Hang out in your head & reflect, then get up off the couch & take action. Rinse. Repeat.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
There’s a time to speak & a time to listen. There’s a time to reflect & a time to act Last week was for reflection. Today’s for action. Based on a traumatic incident I had while in the ICU, in the first of this 3 series post I talked about the power […]
Tags: action, ally, films for action, gender, power, privilege, racism, reflection, sexism, social change
There’s a time to tell your own story & a time to hear others
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
There’s a time to speak & a time to listen, There’s a time to tell your own story & a time to hear others, There’s a time to take a break because you can & a time to take a break because you have to, There’s a time to reflect & a time to act. […]
Tags: action, change management, kelly diels, patti digh, praxis, reflection, sexism, social change, wellness. racism
I was okay until I wasn’t. Reflections from the intensive care unit.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
I was okay until I wasn’t. As I was rushed to emergency I stared at the ambulance ceiling, scared & confused. I thought I’d had the flu yet a week in intensive care later, I was treated for kidney & blood infections. My blood had become poisoned. Fast forward. I’ve composed this post to […]
Tags: ageism, discrimination, homophobia, praxis, racism, sexism, social change
Give me constraints, give me creativity
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
If someone challenged you to write a book using only 50 words, could you do it? How creative do you think you could be? That’s just what Theodore Geisel did when his editor bet him that he couldn’t write a children’s book using just 50 words. Can you guess which book was the result? […]
Tags: Catrinel Haught Tromp, constraints, creativity, Dr. Seuss, green eggs & ham
Things Every Woman Should Have And Should Know; Do You?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
I’m on week 12 or so of not being able to write or type due to a tenacious case of tennis elbow. My temporary disability has given me a lot of time to reflect. On a good day the fear, fatigue & frustration gives way to empathy, insight & perspective. (On a bad day […]
Tags: every woman, maya angelou, pamela satran
When it comes to resilience, which are you – an egg, carrot or a coffee bean?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
My friend & I had climbed several of flights of stairs & sandwiched ourselves into high-backed, comfy chairs to listen to the bright minds that had come to speak at TEDx Kilimani, a suburb of Nairobi. Like speaker Sitawa Wafula, award-winning activist & founder of My Mind My Funk, demonstrated recently. Sitawa had […]
Tags: fight, flee, flow, resilience, tedx
What my temporary disability has taught me & how facing a lifelong fear didn’t kill me but made me better
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
You don’t know how much you use a particular muscle until it’s not working. These days brushing my teeth, eating, writing & typing produce, at worst a searing hot pain & at best a dull ache. Meeting a tight curriculum writing deadline has caused tendinitis in my arm. Multiple doctor & physio appointments […]
Tags: empathy, fatigue, fear, frustration, insight, perspective
Pssst – what’s your secret password? I will tell.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
May 4th is world password day (#WorldPasswordDay), which got me thinking – there are passwords to your computer files of course, but what about the passwords to your heart? To a life full of meaning? To success on your terms? Some of my passwords are ‘spacious possibilities’ which for me means: I am […]
Tags: confidence, password, richard branson
The C word
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
The C word. Have it & you’ve got a protective buffer against life’s many challenges. Lack it & every challenge, like a colleague’s careless cutting remarks, stings more than a scraped knee. Some people look like they’re oozing it, but often they’re only faking – like a house built without a foundation, they […]
Tags: c word, celebrate, confidence, power, self-doubt
A simple, easy tool to help your blender brain (& your emotional hygiene)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
Blender brain. It’s what I call the state of having so many things whirring through my mind that it’s hard to focus or move forward. Can you relate? Last post I wrote about the intriguing concept of emotional hygiene – a concept coined by Guy Winch – which is being mindful of our psychological health and adopting brief […]
Tags: emotional hygiene, guy winch, strategy, tip, tool, Wellness