A New Beginning - The Precious Present Of Another New Year -- ON A WOMAN'S PATH, an e-Doc

Happy New Year! The only problem is that, for many people, the statement is transformed into a question. Will it be a happy new year (gulp!) -- for me? Says Debbe Kennedy: "Life is a series of new beginnings. It is always inviting us to create the lives we want to live -- to become more ourselves." Thus, she writes, "the advent of a new year has become one of my favorite times." Yet this is more than a simple salute to new beginnings; Kennedy also offers a "New Beginning Planning Process" involving three major steps related to managing time, introspection, and planning. After discussing how to start each new year with an exclamation point (!), Kennedy ends her article by revealing that she just discovered a poem in her father's belongings, items set aside in a box that Kennedy admits that "she never had the courage to open since he died." The poem, by Helen Lowrie Marshall, printed in a news clipping, ends with these lines: "Begin with a vision / And follow it through -- / For that is the way / Great Tomorrows come true." Kennedy is a master problem-solver, author, and innovator as well as founder-president of the Leadership Solutions Companies, an award-winning women-owned, women-operated enterprise, specializing in leadership and organizational communications. She is also the author of Breakthrough! and Diversity Breakthrough! This e-Doc is published by BrownHerron Publishing, with permission.