If you are doing it right, the law can become an all-consuming drain on you: mentally and physically. Here’s a few tips for staying energized and focused.
- Change the view. Don’t be a slave to your desk. Get out of the office. Change the landscape. I often find myself doing my best writing and editing while sitting at a downtown St. George park looking at the red rock hills as opposed to the wall in my office with the phone or others interrupting me every 10 minutes.
- Exercise. Take a break and do something else. Go throw weights around the gym, go jogging, go biking, join a CrossFit box. Do something to rest the machine that is your mind and to exercise the other machine that is your body.
- Find an outside passion. Find something that you enjoy doing outside the law and make the time to do it. Whether it’s coaching sports, fishing, cooking, painting, or traveling—find something that you are passionate about, put it on the calendar, and immerse yourself in it. That’s how you recharge the batteries.
- Remember why you do it. Remember why you do it: Your family. Make time for them because you never know how much you have. I have never heard of a lawyer on their deathbed regretting that they did not bill more hours.