What’s an Inspired Solo?
It’s a solo practitioner who can say the following things about herself, with full assurance and certitude:
- She wakes up happy, most days.
- She goes to bed content, most nights.
- She practices in an area of law that speaks to her, somehow, even though she might not fully understand why.
- She genuinely likes her clients, and feels they’re pretty fond of her, most times.
- She carves out time on a regular basis to meditate, take walks in nature, pray, journal, or engage in some other mind-body spiritual practice that fills the metaphysical well.
- She values and consults both sides of her brain - the logical left, the creative right - and lets them each have their say.
- She asks for - and gets - a fair fee for the value she provides.
- She embraces those tasks she does, and does them to the best of her ability. The rest, she delegates freely and fully.
- She seeks the eagle’s perspective - looking at life, her practice, her clients, and her cases with a broader point of view, deliberately seeking out more than one way to do things - because she knows options are her friends.
- She operates from prosperity, not poverty, consciousness. She focuses on the abundance, not the lack.
- She is kind to others - including competitors and opposing counsel.
Am I an inspired solo?
Yes, although like everyone else, I stumble from time to time. It’s why I launched my own practice in the first place - to seek out and live another way of practicing law, of being a lawyer. And it’s why I started this blog - I felt that strongly about the things I’ve been discovering along the way that I felt compelled to share them with others. This isn’t done in a sense of “this is the only way to do things,” but rather out of a feeling of compassion - that these discoveries (though I suspect they are far from unique or original to me) can truly help create a new life in the law for those who, as I was, may be facing burnout and career change.
I hope you find something useful here. As with all things, take what’s good, and leave the rest, with my blessings.
