Ripple On News and Notes New Look & Feel

For those of you who do not know, I publish a monthly newsletter called Ripple On News and Notes. I mainly was doing this as another way to let people get to know me, hear a different take on the Ripple concept and basically open up some additional channels of connection.

To be perfectly honest I wasn't aware just how many people had signed up to read the newsletter until recently and I figured I better get a little more serious about making it look and feel more like me and my website. So officially this month I launched the next version of Ripple On News and Notes with the help of my fabulous web development team at Wildwood Interactive.

I would love to hear what you think about the new look and feel and of course, if you aren't already receiving it, invite you to sign up at www.ripplecentral.com

To take a gander at this past month's web archived installment, please click here.

Comments and hopefully many connection conversations are as always welcome!

Ripple On My Friends!!!

Steve

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 was your favorite "thing"
to do when you were a kid?

Getting someone to reconnect to their childhood and through their own stories, allows you to journey back with them as the mentally relive and retell of their childhood adventures. Using this kind of connection question is one of the quickest (and neatest) ways to deepen a connection with someone you want to know better.

So my answer to this question is.....

Playing SPY. My friend Kevin and I could play secret agent spies for hours and never get bored. Whether it was sneaking into the backyard of the "Hippie House" or trying to find the secret dungeon door that the "witch on the corner" had to have (we just knew it!), we did it all and then some! Our bikes were our James Bond-enhanced sports cars and our fort was of course....headquarters. We were pretty hot stuff with gadgets and trinkets that would make your head spin even today.

I miss those days and think of them often. It was just plain good old American boy fun. Oh the trouble we use to cause! But alas I can tell you no more because us spies have a credo of secrecy that we are sworn to protect.

Hope to hear your answers to this week's RCQ!

Ripple On!!!

Agent 007 signing off!

Monday Morning Quote

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Rooselvelt

Pretty insightful don't you think?

Quit stopping yourself from what you know you want to do; from what you want to accomplish. Take chances. Play the game. Step up to the podium. Let the world know who you are.

And in doing that....the Ripples will come and they will be abundantly rewarding.

Ripple On!!!

Steve Harper

This Just About Sums It Up --- It's Summertime!

It's getting hot in Texas. This song just gets me in the mood for dealing with the heat and not complaining (too much) about it.

Just need a cold beer, good shorts and the right kind of attitude. Bring it summertime....I'm ready for ya!





Ripple On!!!

Steve