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“This book tells you all you need to know about how to get on.” The Times
“Relatively few books have been written with assistant solicitors in mind, about how to succeed at the business of being a lawyer… fewer still have devised a programme for so doing that runs alongside a book. This book does both.”Law Society (The Law Management Section)
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I had lunch a while back with a lawyer friend who was worried about her job. So she spent most of our lunch playing “What if.” (“What if I lose my job?” “What if I don’t find another one?” “What if I can’t pay my mortgage?”) Thinking about the conversation later I was reminded of a remark once made by Mark Twain that he had been through some really rough times during his life, and in fact some of them had actually happened. We all do this. I call it “awfulizing”, meaning, taking a situation and contemplating its worst-case scenario. We can put ourselves through hell and usually for no reason— because in most cases the worst case doesn’t happen.
Instead we should be living in the moment, because in reality, that’s really all we definitely have… and because it’s a healthier, more fulfilling way to live.
(By the way, my friend did in fact lose her job, but alsofound a new one, which she happens to love!)
Posted on 12/10/2010