When scales don’t tell the truth- how do you judge success?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & 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. […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, creativity & innovation, e-series, exercise, forum for women entrepreneurs, perspective, scale, success, tim ferris
Fringe or Fray: how you see the edges affects how you see the core
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution
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 […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, creativity & innovation, four hour work week, learning, mess, organized, perfect mess, perspective, tim ferris
Weight loss and business lessons
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Today I’m celebrating my two year anniversary of having lost 30 pounds. I learned a lot during my weight loss journey. Mostly I learned it’s about common sense prevailing over wishful thinking, reducing the power I have to delude myself and accepting some givens without excuses. I also learned about applying the journey to the […]
Tags: change management, chocolate, forum for women entrepreneurs, four hour work week, law of the farm, leap of faith, learning, russel stover, stephen covey, tim ferris, training & development, weight loss
Start small & think big; creme brulee over soya sauce
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
A taste of two worlds. And a time honoured lesson. I was trying to put soya sauce on my sushi the other day and having a devil of a time. The little package of soya sauce didn’t have a small pre-cut in it designed to make it easy to open. While yesterday my taste buds […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, creativity & innovation, creme brulee, four hour work week, learning, marie morin, perspective, tim ferris
My extended quirky to do list part 7 – to’odle
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication
My last 6 posts describe an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: – to do, to continue doing, to stop doing, to not do, to done (no, the last one’s not a typo) (here’s a […]
Tags: accomplishment, because we can, change management, corporate, dragon's den, fatboy slim, forum f, forum for women entrepreneurs, four, four hour work week, new year, progress, resolutions, success, tim ferris, to do, training & development
My extended quirky to do list part 5 – what not to do
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication
Continuing the spirit of New Year’s musing, my last 4 posts describe an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: (I love that out of the 5 categories only two are about adding things. Can we […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, africa, brussel sprouts, change management, don't be stupid, new year, reosolution, shania twain, television, tim ferris, to do, tv
My extended quirky to do list part 4 – what to stop doing
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Humor & comedy
Continuing the spirit of the requisite New Year’s musings, my last 3 posts describe an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: – to do, to continue doing, to stop doing, to not do, to done […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, four hour work week, learning, new year, resolutions, stop, stop in the name of love, supremes, tim ferris, to do