Welcome to “WRIGHT NOW” and to 2013. I am excited to embark on this
new venture—my Blog!
For years I have been keeping a journal, written in the old
fashioned way, with a pen and some lined paper. By the end of the entry, my
hand usually hurts, you can’t read my writing and the thoughts are like ping
pong balls covering a plethora a things. Most of the topics covered are about
my family – my husband and my two boys. I want to capture the fleeting moments
in the day, and the written word allows me to do that.
Sometimes, I go back and read old journal entries and it
immediately puts me back into that space and time. I recently found an old
journal that I started in January 2008. The entries talk about how much I adore
my little boy Liam (whom at the time was only 15 months—he is now six years
old). I had written on that particular day that I felt a bit guilty not being
able to spend nearly as much time with him as I would have liked to.
And during that timeframe, I had evidently just fired my nanny,
was dealing with trying to find a daycare and toying with the idea of
establishing my own consulting company. I had anxiety, was frightened and
wondered if taking a leap of faith was the right approach for both my parenting
decisions and my professional career.
As I enter 2013- five years after that post- those fears seem
silly. I did put my son in a wonderful daycare. He flourished, grew and made
many friends who are still his pals today. I even put my second son, Owen in
the same school—the one he attends today. And the business has been
remarkable—and one of the best professional decisions I could have ever made.
I have been blessed to have
(and had) some amazing clients, colleagues and mentors. Many of those have trusted their entire
communications programs and strategies to my firm and me. I am grateful for
them and for the work. I am grateful for
all the skills I have acquired from having the guts to do it on my own. I am
grateful for all I learn every day—about business, entrepreneurship and people.
I am very excited to continue on this journey. It is a good one.
And, so I will close my very first post with one of my favorite quotes from
Marianne Williamson.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
In 2013, I promise to always try and take the leap of faith!
