If you’re a blogger, or you do any other kind of writing, I’ll bet you’re familiar with the nagging worry that you “don’t have the right” to say what you’re saying.  Perhaps you’ve been writing a piece about happiness, for instance, and started wondering if it was okay for you to write it without a [...]

I shudder a little when I think about some of my old working habits.  One of these habits was to do what I now call “pushing the moment.”  When I’d be under time pressure, or I just wanted a task off my plate quickly, I’d tighten up my shoulders as I worked — as if [...]

A while back, I had a client—I’ll call her Jane—who, like many people I work with, was interested in a career change.  Jane had several great ideas in mind.  Unfortunately, she was also great at coming up with reasons why they wouldn’t work, and when she came to see me she was feeling pretty despondent.
We [...]

(This is Part One of a two-part series.  Click here to read Part Two.  Note to non-lawyers:  Although this post is about transitioning out of the legal profession, I suspect you’ll see many themes and ideas in it that bring clarity to your own situation.)
As a former attorney, I know many lawyers.  Some of them [...]

I know, this piece has an unusual title, but it came to me in a half-asleep trance, and when something like that happens I’ve learned I should run with it.  The title is one way of expressing the idea that our perceptions of the world and the events and people in it greatly depend on the [...]

Many of us have developed ideas about ourselves—what we might call identities—that artificially limit what we can accomplish in life.  For instance, some of us have come to think of ourselves as shy or meek, and thus we avoid conflict and let others take advantage of us.  Some of us identify ourselves as unmotivated, and [...]