Psychology of Inspiration
« Previous EntriesA Small Game of What If…
Monday, June 9th, 2008My friend Matt Homann says his friend Ernie asked a few questions, which resonated with me deeply. Do they resonate with you?
Especially, maybe, the last one?
What if every day you showed up to work, eager to do something really good? Something meaningful.
What if you came up with ideas on how [...]
Getting Passionate About the Practice of Law
Saturday, June 7th, 2008The Inspired Solo is on a brief time-out while we plan and get ready to launch the new and improved site. Don’t forget to help us out by taking our survey, which makes you eligible to win an iPod nano! Posting will be light until the unveiling, but this one just demanded to be posted [...]
How’s Your Client Service?
As Good As This?
Monday, May 5th, 2008
I’m veering off the law path with this one but I think there’s a story here for solo lawyers, too.
So, I paint. A little and not well, but I enjoy it a lot. I haven’t done it in awhile though, and my supplies were nonexistent. So I shopped around online for a new source. [...]
The “Surviving Scary Times” Manual: Tips to Get You Through the Jungle
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Last post we looked at how to deal with the not-so-fun times of being a vaunted solo practitioner; this brief post is for the sole purpose of directing you to another resource along these lines that you really should bookmark and come back to, again and again. I intend to.
The resource is from Dan Sullivan [...]
It Can’t Be All Good, All the Time: Why You’ll Hate Your Job,
& Why That’s OK
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Hold on to your yoga mats, friends; I’m about to shock you all:
You can hate your job. Even when you’ve achieved your dream . . . the Holy Grail . . . your inspired solo practice . . . You can, and you will . . . at some point.
And here’s more shocking [...]
Is Autism Really a Disease? Could It Be the Next Step in Brain Evolution?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008You’re struggling to get a better grasp of lien avoidance in consumer bankruptcies. It’s 2 AM and you’re frustrated with yourself and your apparent inability to retain facts and concepts from one page of the 600-+ page treatise you’re studying to the next.
Or maybe the book is a record on appeal, and the facts [...]
“Change of Venue” for Busy Lawyers
Monday, April 28th, 2008Communicatrix Brings the Inspiration …
Communicatrix has me at … well, whatever her first word happens to be, but this post is particularly near and dear to my heart. Colleen’s got a way, like me (I’ve been told), of cutting to the point pretty directly (when properly motivated — me, I mean — Colleen seems [...]
Life = Risk
Thursday, April 24th, 2008If you haven’t failed, you haven’t lived.
Hat tip to Michael Martine of Remarkablogger for sharing via Twitter!
Set Your Intention for a Good Day At the Office
Friday, April 11th, 2008In yoga, we’re encouraged to start a daily practice of asana (poses) and meditation at home, as a worthwhile addition to the weekly group class or DVD many of us start off with. One aspect of my daily practice that’s been especially helpful in my “other” practice (the law practice, that is) is the repetition [...]
7 Days of Inspiration:
Week Ending Feb. 16, 2008
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Each week, I scour the internet to look for seven posts from the preceding week that, in my humble opinion, represent some inspired thinking, or that might trigger inspired thinking in a solo lawyer.
And with each post, I’ve begun offering some suggestions about “ways in” to the inspiration of each post — i.e., questions to [...]
