212 Degrees to Boiling

We wanted to pass along this very short inspirational movie/video… at 211 degrees water is HOT, but add one degree, and at 212 degrees, water boils, produces steam and can produce enough energy to run a train!  This is worth watching… it takes EFFORT, ENERGY and WORK to be great, produce results,  make a difference… to change your life!

http://www.the212movie.com/

The Strength and Leadership of Women

This is an excerpt from a workshop presentation I recently gave at a Senior Executive Women’s Event for a Fortune 50 company…. here’s just the beginning…   Donna Rae

 “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows’, composed by Helen Keller, more than 50 years ago has inspired me throughout my life.

Helen Keller, encumbered with an inability to speak, see or hear, become one of the world’s most inspirational voices – and most heard voices.

Helen Keller, a voice of courage, ensuring her voice was heard.

Like each and every woman today, Keller realized amazing accomplishments. To be here, we all have accomplished much, aspire to go beyond, and perhaps we have daring dreams. Yes, we have come along way by overcoming barriers and still confronting barriers today.

I believe the world needs women, the voices of women, and the intrinsic strengths of women more today than ever before. Our intrinsic strengths of connecting, collaborating, open & transparent risk taking, learning from our failures, our insightfulness, deep intuition, and our capacity to be voices of persuasion with the utmost of integrity.

And today provides an opportunity, a personal leadership experience, for our presence, our voices, and our natural strengths as women to be heard.

During today’s  session, I will provide you with interactive experiences and tools to expand your personal leadership capability in new and different ways. I will also provide you with a personal leader development model that you will be able to immediately take into action once the session ends.  

Even though you do not know how the next two hours are designed, I would like you to reflect on what would make this event meaningful for you personally. And for you to have that meaningful outcome, what are you willing to do to make that happen? What are you willing to do, think, say, ask – that is different – and is a stretch for you?…”