What’s your biological age? And does it match your passport?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
It’s my birthday today. I’m 44 according to my passport. Biologically though I’m 39 or so realage.com says. Real age is all about “living life to the youngest” and has the backing of Dr. Oz who sits on their advisory board. Harness a bit of patience, go the website, answer all sorts of questions about […]
Tags: age, aging, birthday, change management, Dr. Oz, passport, real age, time, youth
Fall on my knees
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
It’s late at night now. I’ve gone to bed once but got up as the words to this post were calling. I was supposed to spend this weekend on my own. Blissfully alone. Quietly alone. Then I got a call early this morning that one of my kids was sick and would I come and […]
Tags: allison russell, change management, gay rights, harvey milk, milk, o holy night, scouts, sean penn, stuart mclean, vinyl cafe
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article […]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader
I believe in hope
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, Travel
Tomorrow I leave Nairobi for home. As I get ready for the 24 hour marathon journey a pause to think about my time here……. I believe that hope has a home. It lives in small places, fanned by the winds of change. I believe that hope is our compass. Without it we’re lost in the […]
Tags: africa, change management, kenya, nairobi, united nations
Change management: Alice in Wonderland with chicken legs or wings
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
We had been working on designing a survey for youth who had taken part in training at the One Stop Youth Centre. I was working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last week doing follow-up to the program evaluation training I did in Naivasha for the United Nations. Dar es Salaam means ‘haven of peace’ in […]
Tags: africa, alice in wonderland, change management, chicken, naivasha, program evaluation, tanzania, united nations