A Simple Well-Being Practice

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Well-Being is defined as; “a continuous process in which Lawyers strive for thriving in each dimension of their lives.”

Because this is a process, not a series of goals, we need to have practices to help keep us in the process of expressing each dimension of ourselves.  

A simple exercise that can help us keep on track, particularly in the Occupational and the Spiritual dimensions, is to ask ourselves these simple questions and review them every day:

  1. Why do I want to be a lawyer?
  2. What do I bring to the legal profession?
  3. What am I doing in my profession to bring “Awe” alive?
  4. What is Awesome about being a lawyer?

Often, we get in a rut and forget to pay attention to why we want to do the work we are doing. It becomes “something I am doing because I am doing it”. These questions will help you remember the purpose of your work and why you want to do it.

Note: Awe refers to sense of magnitude and importance. It helps us see that something, in this case the work, or profession, is larger than our present experience.