Leadership Qualities

Leadership Skills and Qualities No one accomplishes great things on their own. They have a team supporting them all the way. The provide a clear vision of what they hope to achieve and what it's going to take to get there. Throughout history there has been some great leaders; Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King…

March 9, 20180Comments

ByBrandon.tijerina@theridgeproject.com

Leadership

Leading Meetings

How to Lead a Meeting that Doesn’t Suck “Honey, cancel our dinner plans. I just got invited to a work meeting, and I really want to go to it,” said no one ever. According to Inc. Magazine, 46% of working Americans would rather endure an unpleasant activity, like a root canal or a move to…

March 8, 20180Comments

Byinfo

Leadership

Feeling Stressed?

Feeling Stressed? Try these six tips to increase your workplace productivity. We’ve all been there. You start the week with high ideals and Wednesday rolls around only to discover you only have a fraction completed of what you set out to accomplish. We are oftentimes too stressed to feel productive. In fact, 83% of U.S.…

March 7, 20180Comments

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Leadership

How to manage time

Focus on one thing at a time If you find yourself consuming crazy amounts of coffee and red bull trying to get the most time out of your day; you are not alone. How is it that some people completely crush their checklist while others lay in bed, too stressed to sleep? The reality is that…

March 6, 20180Comments

ByBrandon.tijerina@theridgeproject.com

Leadership

Do I Have To?

How do you feel about Mondays? Asking yourself this one question could reshape the way you view your world. Mondays can be seen as a dreadful thing or a chance to accomplish much. To some, Mondays are evil harbingers, foreshadowing a week of missed emails, unnecessary meetings, and stressful encounters. Yet to others, Mondays provide…

March 5, 20180Comments

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Family

Prejudice

Prejudice. I never imagined that I would see prejudice because of a car I drove. It was such a surprise to me when people openly expressed their disdain toward my sons because my car was old and not attractive. When my sons were in baseball. The parents were responsible for providing rides to and from all…

March 1, 20180Comments

Bycatherine@theridgeproject.com

Family

Dream Again

As the wife of a prisoner, my dream was to have Ron come home. When others asked me what I wanted most for my life, I would always respond that I just wanted my husband home. Everything I did and dreamt about centered around having Ron out of prison. I could only dream about ending…

February 25, 20180Comments

Bycatherine@theridgeproject.com

Family

Prison Phone Calls

Prison Phone Calls We are so used to just picking up the phone and making a call to whoever we want to talk with whenever we want to hear their voice. With technology today, we are used to having instant and inexpensive access to people 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When someone goes…

February 21, 20180Comments

Bycatherine@theridgeproject.com

Family

Wishbone or backbone

When I was a little girl, I would visit my grandparents in Jackson Hole, WY. I would look forward to every trip to their ranch. Everything was new, everything was different from my home. The fresh smell of the mountain air mixed with the scent of horses made me want to live there forever. The scenery…

February 16, 20180Comments

Bycatherine@theridgeproject.com

Family

Find Your Voice

When Ron first went to prison, I felt so intimidated by…. well, by just about everything and everybody. It was really hard to stand up for myself. I felt as if I was not entitled to have a voice. This stemmed from feeling like a second-class citizen and unimportant. Read more of my story. I…

February 8, 20180Comments

Bycatherine@theridgeproject.com