Lee Ray's Blog

Has it been eight months since I've written?  Seriously??  So much has happened this year and reflecting back on it, 2015 is wrapping up to be a banner year for our family, for me, and for renewed relationships.

We moved...new home, new neighborhood, new friends, yet keeping all the best of the old.  Not even knowing we were going to do this, we purchased a new home, sold our old home, moved,

Ok, so it's been a while since I've written...and I missed it.  But I wasn't ready to write and that makes a huge difference to me.  I simply cannot write just to be writing.  Why wasn't I ready?  Something in me changed, fundamentally changed.  We've all dealt with the loss of a loved one and we all, eventually, find a way to move forward again.  The same has happened with me.  However, this

 Hello out there, world!  Have you ever experience a major life event which altered the course of your life and you simply accepted it and took it in stride?  This is just what was planned for your life and you were going to accept it, learn it, deal with it, and move on.  I thought I could do just that after suffering from viral labyrinthitis in October 2013 and permanently losing all hearing

Simplification.  Is this a catch phrase or is there logic behind it?  In business, absolutely.  How about in our personal lives?  We add more and more, do more and more, schedule more and more.  Life is short we tell ourselves, we must get the most out of every day.  But seriously...doesn't that wear us down, break us down, and perhaps even shorten that life that is already too short.  Can we do

There is an old adage that states to understand someone is to walk a mile in their shoes.  That was never meant literally, but was meant to stress not judging people and urging an understanding into how people feel, think, and respond.  What makes someone tick?  Why do they do certain things?  No one knows how any certain individual will react to a situation or why.  However, the adage does have

Hello!  It's been quite a while since I've written, but that doesn't mean there isn't things to write about.  Life has been so busy and blessed, I love where life and God has taken me.  Within my life now, I get a chance to interact with and work with individuals of all backgrounds and ages.  There are many whom want to learn the right thing, there are those whom teach the right thing, and then

As we start the process of closing 2013 out, we also take the time to reflect on family, our lives, our blessings, and take stock in our friends and our faith.  I love this about this time of year!

We've had some blessings this year...plenty of family time at sporting events, watching Jade enter into her last year before high school, she cheered her football team to a championship, we added a

A band of brothers and sisters?  Most definitely!  Lifetime memories and stories of places visited...many of which were not of our choosing?  Again, most definitely.  An honor that we all chose and would do again in a heartbeat?  Absolutely!

1995 - 2011 were years of my life where I gave freely, but gained so much more in return.  As I go through my daily life, service to our country is a

Have you ever heard the question, "what motivates you?"  Better yet, have you been part of a leadership team which is tasked with motivating others?  Getting the best out of a group of skilled individuals is an essential and necessary part of what a leader does, but is it honestly motivation we need to focus on?  Think about this for just a second.  If we motivate someone to perform a task very

I once heard someone say that information that can help you improve who you are and develop you professional and/or personally is called golden nuggets.  Here is my first installment in sharing my golden nuggets from the past few weeks.

Over the past week, I've had the pleasure of going to a leadership conference and obtaining feedback on the previous six months of my work in my new career track