Lawyer Jennifer Alvey writes, “I’d be willing to bet more than 80% of you live with a Happy Horizon in your head. The Happy Horizon is the fantasy you use to convince yourself that all your angst over your job is just a temporary blip, rather than the actual contours of your daily existence.” Read her Blog
The Happy Horizon Keeps Unhappy Lawyers Stuck
The Most Important New Year’s Resolution You Can Make Right Now
Lawyer Casey Berman writes about small changes you can begin to make in preparation to leave the law in 2015. Read the Blog
Lawyer’s Lament: But I Don’t Have a Calling
A powerful blog from Jennifer Alvey about how lawyers fail to leave the profession because they can’t define exactly what it is they would like to do. Read the Blog
Lawyers Who Switch Careers Find Happiness in Baking, Tech and Other Fields
The Washington Post reports that many lawyers are chucking the legal biz and finding joy in other types of work. Read the News
We Are Scared, But Here Is Why We Shouldn’t Try Too Hard To Get Over Our Fears
Lawyer Casey Berman writes, “While many of us view fears as something to overcome, a major element of success and personal development and growth is the realization that these fears never really go away. They are always with us. The secret is not in necessarily extinguishing them, but in mitigating them. Read the Blog
50 Days of Joy – Yes, Even for Lawyers
Jennifer Alvey writes, “Lawyers, for lots of reasons, tend to overlook, dismiss, or minimize the little joys in life.” Read her Blog
What (Unhappy) Lawyer Isn’t Anxiety-Ridden?
Lots of lawyers are full of anxiety. There are reasons why this is so. But if the anxiety doesn’t stop when the reason is over, a lawyer may well have a problem with general anxiety disorder, writes blogger Jennifer Alvey. Read the Blog
What It Takes for Miserable Lawyers to Blossom
Jennifer Alvey blogs that the hardest part of a life change for lawyers, whether it’s their career or other important areas of their life, usually is the waiting. Unfortunately, it’s also very necessary for any big change to occur. Read the Blog
The Low-Down on Pain, Gratitude and Unhappy Lawyers
From the blog Leaving the Law, a post about unhappy lawyers and gratitude. Read the Blog
Unhappy Lawyers and the Myth of “I’m not creative”
Blogger Jennifer Alvey passionate plea to unhappy lawyers to see themselves as creative. Read the Blog
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