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Shari Maloney
2011-12 President |
LIVE FEARLESSLY! It is truly an honor to start this new year with you. This past year has been an amazing one. The future lies in front of us and it is going to be another great year – I can feel it. I am so thankful to have such a great group of women to serve on our teams and work on our projects.
As President LaTresse approached me last year about being president elect, I was pretty fearful of this position. I like to be involved with things – but I’m not so anxious to be front and center. But one thing I’ve learned over the years is that you need to face your fears. There is nothing more gratifying than doing something you believe in and that moves you beyond your comfort zone (scary - BUT gratifying).
That is why I have chosen for my theme this year to “live fearlessly”. There are times when we all let fear get the best of us. Eleanor Roosevelt said “Do one thing every day that scares you.” We avoid … we are apprehensive, uncomfortable about new things, and many times that fear keeps us from moving forward.
I’d like to see us push ourselves to live fearlessly. I’d like to see us encourage each other to live fearlessly.
So how do we start? We need to be authentic … be real, be genuine. We need to have courage – it takes courage to be our authentic selves and have confidence in who we are. We are powerful women. As we embraced our power this past year – let’s take our power and show how we can grow by living fearlessly. Let’s enrich our lives by doing those things we may have shied away from before. Let’s make a difference in our own lives and in the lives of others.
Eleanor Roosevelt had another great quote: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face … you must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
So let’s start living fearlessly today!
Sincerely,
Shari Maloney
LAPW President
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