Carolyn Elefant’s Being the Professional You Wanted To Be– EngagingConflicts.com
Carolyn Elefant’s was one of the first blogs I read, back in 2002 when she started MyShingle.com. She is offering a free download of a compiled collection of her blog posts called “The Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be: Inspiration for New Grads and Practicing Lawyers.” I think the points are also applicable for mediators and other conflict specialists, as they relate to the dreams and disappointments of establishing a business and being a helping professional.
As she says:
As you probably expect or already realize, practicing law can be stressful. Long hours, nasty supervisors, difficult clients and worries about making the student loan payments can put a damper on even the best of jobs. The day to day stress scarcely leaves time to evaluate where you’re going or how far you’ve come or whether you’re doing what matters to you. This collection of posts is intended to remind, encourage and inspire you to remember what matters and to become the lawyer you always wanted to be.
The article’s format makes clear it’s going to be published as a Change This manifesto (I have posted about other Change This manifestos before, e.g., here, on creativity; here on time management; here, titled Drawings That Will Change Your Life; and here, one of my favorites, on literacy). You have a chance to get Carolyn’s article now, pre-Change This release — just click below to download it. But if you go to her site here to download it by May 15, she’ll put you in a drawing for a copy of her newly published book Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.
