The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work: Taking the Stress Out of SuccessLaw Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, 1999 - 235 pages Designed to help lawyers achieve personal and professional satisfaction in their careers, this guide offers seasoned wisdom for navigating a stress-free path through a career in law. Through practical and explorative exercises, lawyers learn how to identify habitual patterns, clearly evaluate past and current jobs, and discover self-empowerment, and how to apply this information to making healthy decisions. The exercises take personal facts from all aspects of a lawyer's complex life and arrange the information into simple, useful advice for making productive career choices. The book is peppered with informative and engaging anecdotes, and firsthand burnout experiences-offering remedies and direction for lawyers whose careers and lives are out of balance. |
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... story , part of my story , and part of THE story . David Gershon helped shine a bright light on more than my frus- trations as a practicing lawyer - he extended the light so I could see choices instead of problems . When I trace the ...
... story , part of my story , and part of THE story . David Gershon helped shine a bright light on more than my frus- trations as a practicing lawyer - he extended the light so I could see choices instead of problems . When I trace the ...
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... story is ours alone . To understand our story we need to explore what meaning it holds for us . To help in that understanding , we can use our cognitive skills to evaluate our story and our empathetic skills to bring feeling to our ...
... story is ours alone . To understand our story we need to explore what meaning it holds for us . To help in that understanding , we can use our cognitive skills to evaluate our story and our empathetic skills to bring feeling to our ...
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... story in everyday events and to capture that story so all of us can see it . SIMPLICITY Finally , creativity can be found in places that are mundane and in activ- ities that are quite ordinary . My mother was a wonderful cook and an ...
... story in everyday events and to capture that story so all of us can see it . SIMPLICITY Finally , creativity can be found in places that are mundane and in activ- ities that are quite ordinary . My mother was a wonderful cook and an ...
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Taking StockThe Path to the Law | 11 |
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