Ripple Connection Question of the Week

Ripple Connection Questions are a unique way to engage people in conversation. Whether with a complete stranger or someone you already know, but want to know better, using Ripple Connection Questions (RCQ) accelerate the dialogue and deepen the connection. The questions are by design fun to ask and fun to answer and can take your connection to an entirely new level. Come on, break out of that shell yours and start Rippling.

Trust me you will be glad you did!

This week's Ripple Connection Question is....

What is one of your guilty pleasures?

You can really learn a lot about someone by asking this question. I once had a client that I had worked with for some time but wanted to get to know better. I dusted off this old question during a lunch meeting and was taken on a twenty minute journey on this person's passion for open houses. Apparently this mild mannered CFO was a tireless admirer of other people's homes and her weekend was often filled with open house after open house tours. She called them inspiration and idea tours.

A short time after learning about my client's propensity for open houses my company landed a fairly large real estate publication company as a client. I asked my new client if they would be willing to sign up my other client to receive their weekly publication which outlined the current week's home listings and had an open house preview section. They agreed and you would have thought my CFO client was given the winning lottery ticket she was so appreciative.

Needless to say, that little connection point continues to pay-off for me to this day. Amazing what a little Ripple Connection Question can do to positively alter and forever change the dynamic of a relationship.

Ripple On!!!

Steve Harper

Don't Wait For The World To Change

I recently discovered this song by John Mayer called Waiting for the World to Change and I just really like it. Though I suspect it was written to challenge the current political climate, I gravitated towards the title of the song because it speaks to something very different for me.

How many of us wake up in the morning and look at the day ahead not as what we get to do but what we have to do? What about how we look at the relationships we have which aren't quite going right but could if only the other person would change? How do we look at our careers and think if only the economy would change I could have confidence to start that business or apply for that new position? Or that lottery ticket and how much it would change my life if only they would call my number.

Are you waiting for the world to change so that your life can miraculously be better?

Just one question....How's that working for you?

I suspect you, like me, aren't seeing exactly the results that you had hoped for. But there is good news. You are in control. You have the ability to make the changes in your life and ultimately in your world that you want and need. You. No one else. You.

Don't wait for the world to change to meet your expectations, match your desires or bring the opportunities you seek. Take a small step today to make the kind of change you want to see in your world. Take a bigger step tomorrow. Take an even bigger step the day after tomorrow.

Before you know it the changes you want and need will be happening and ultimately the life, the career, the relationships, the rewards will be there bringing more Ripples to you can you could possibly imagine.

Stop waiting and start doing. No more excuses. No more waiting on the world to change.

Enjoy the video and as always.......

Ripple On!!!