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Good
Intentions and Great Expectations
Alas,
the holiday season has come and gone once again. I took
down our tree and decorations faster than we put them up.
As the mail arrived with each passing day in the
month of December, I grew a bit more anxious as I opened
holiday cards filled with wonderful wishes and greetings
from our friends and family. Why, might you ask?
Well, I suppose it was my own guilt for not finding the
time to sit down and write out my own cards or holiday letter
filled with my own wonderful wishes and greetings. While
I had every good intention of "getting it together
tomorrow," tomorrow finally became today.
As the
start of the New Year approached, I asked myself what resolutions
I should make. New Year's
resolutions are statements I've never grown accustomed to
making. It's just not my style. Instead
of making the traditional resolutions, I decided instead
to focus on my great expectations for the 2006 year.
I decided that focusing more on expectations rather than
resolutions would be much more realistic.
In the
coming months, I expect that I will reach out and connect
with more of you and help you share your stories and ideas
with "the rest of us." And in doing so, I expect
to grow personally and spiritually. One
might equate great expectations with another phrase, "high
hopes" as the two are interchangeable.
My hopes do run high that through the Journal,
I can help connect women across our state and make a difference
through my own efforts. And maybe, just maybe, in
40 more years I can look back as C. Vickie Kilimanjaro has
and see the fruits of my efforts.
Mrs.
Kilimanjaro and her husband started The Carolina
Peacemaker four decades ago. Mrs. Kilimanjaro,
interviewed by Theresa Bennett-Wilkes, is our January 2006
featured North Carolinian. Both she and her husband grew
the weekly Triad newspaper into what it is today. Few
endeavors that have stood the test of time have rarely been
a straight shot. Rather, diligence, foresight, perseverance,
and a willingness to make it happen are all necessary ingredients
to sustain any successful venture.
Best wishes for
a great start to a new year!
Paula
Monahan
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A
resident
of
Raleigh,
North
Carolina,
Paula
Monahan
is
a
past
President
of
the
American
Marketing
Association,
Triangle
Chapter.
With
over
fifteen
years
of
experience
in
sales
and
marketing,
Paula
is
putting
all
of
her
learned
skills
and
talents
to
good
use
in
this
online
publication
for
women.
As
a
way
of
reaching
out
and
connecting
with
women
from
a
variety
of
backgrounds,
her
goal
is
to
create
a
networked
community
of
online
women
readers
who
value
inspiring,
insightful
and
empowering
content.
