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The Wake Up Call for Lawyers

Mindfulness for the Legal Mind: a 10-minute talk plus 10 minutes of guided meditation. A brief refuge. The musings of a long-time lawyer, law professor, and mindfulness geek on lawyering from a mindful perspective. Tools to cultivate more joy, ease, and wellbeing in this crazy profession. Ideas to become even better at what you do, and save the world. A few minutes of peace every week, which you definitely deserve.

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20:12

Wise Lawyering: Practicing Peace

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/08/29

When I think back on being 20 and choosing to be a lawyer, there was a lot of, “why not? That seems like a cool path.” There was less of, “how will this serve?” or “will this contribute to a more harmonious world?”I see now that whether my work created harmony or discord was always the important question.Pema Chodron invites us to ask, “am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?” That’s the question I would ask my 20-year-old self today. It’s the question I ask my 65-year-old self as...

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18:56

Behaving With Wisdom

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/08/23

Behaving mindfully is not always easy. Don’t cause harm, don’t take anything that’s not mine to take, don’t be biased, don’t cloud the mind, always be kind: it’s clear what the invitation is. But for me it’s not easy to remember to accept that invitation and live each moment like that.What is easy for me to remember, when I’ve caused harm or taken more than my share or harbored (or spoken with) ill will, is that it’s possible to take responsibility, make things right as best as I can, and lea...

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19:41

Winning & Influencing Mindfully

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/08/15

I have no idea how many times I say something, or write an email, or post, with irritation on my mind. Or hit the numbers for Verizon, with exasperation. I do know that when I do, the result is often not great.When I remember to be mindful - to consider my timing, be honest, and be kind no matter what (and no matter who) –the result is decent. The other person seems more interested and relaxed. And I feel ok, even when I don’t get what I want. Timing, honesty, and kindness: I’m loving t...

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20:02

The Problem With Good Intentions

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/08/09

The problem with good intentions is that they’re subjective. Plus, I may have good intentions but what ‘good’ are they if my impact is still harmful?Wise intentions are different. Wise intentions are objective and aspirational. When I remember to set and follow them, I’m less likely to hurt anyone and more likely to be helpful and even, maybe, contribute in some small way to the goodDedicated to the U.S. women’s soccer (football) team, for the win …and for a much bigger win in November.

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20:08

The Path to Waking Up

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/08/02

The Path to Waking UpEach of the eight steps of the mindfulness path - the path to waking up - feels important. But the first, which emphasizes that everything we say and do matters, feels like the most important to remember. When I do, I’m kinder on call-center calls, more compassionate to people who upset me, curious about political views that seem diametrically opposed to mine and the neighbors who hold them.Everything we say and do matters…for one obvious reason, to me anyway: we belong t...

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19:50

Letting Go When the Stakes are High

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/07/25

Right now feels like a moment when I need to assert my beliefs and work very, very hard to create change. The stakes feel too high to do anything else.At the same time, when I act like an expert not too many people seem to want to hear what I have to say. When I let go of believing I’m right and they’re wrong, they seem at least a little bit interested. But is it even possible to let go, to cultivate beginner’s mind, right now, in this polarized moment? If it is, I wonder what would happ...

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20:45

The Reason Things Are Hard

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/07/19

The birds in the trees, the light at dawn, the gorgeousness of morning: these things are all mixed up right now with dysfunctional politics, a precarious climate, and so much going on at home.Mindfulness helps. Present moment attention without judgment, the first step, is crucial. And so is the next step. The next step is, don’t wish things were other than they are. Work hard to change things, absolutely. But be present moment to moment with the joys and the sorrows, too. It’s a big...

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20:37

Why Being Human is The Only Way

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/07/12

Each day of being relatively balanced feels to me like a day of possibility. What I notice is that when I’m balanced, when I’m really feeling human - not in survival mode, not activated, not checked out, there’s the possibility that mindfulness will point me towards kindness and compassion, for myself and for everyone. I also notice it’s circular. When I’m practicing mindfulness regularly, I’m less in survival mode, less activated, and less checked out. And I’m more likely to feel at lea...

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21:08

The Insecurity Of Everything

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/06/28

There’s nothing I want more, really, than for things to be secure and predictable and easeful, for me and for everyone. But that’s the funny thing about being human. Nothing is secure, not even our lives. Almost nothing is predictable, not in any durable sense. And ease comes and goes.On another, more foundational level, though, ease is always available. When things don’t go our way, when things slip through our fingers, when we tap into the fundamental insecurity of being human, we have two ...

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19:21

Why Change is All the Things

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/06/21

Change: in my experience, it's sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes welcome, sometimes super hard, but nearly always, out of my control.And yet, when everything is going swimmingly, I forget that. I’m like a dog with a bone: grrrrr - don’t take this away! When everything is sideways, I forget, too. I can’t wait for things to shift, or I’m pushing for them to shift, and sometimes pushing hard. When I forget that change is nearly always out of my control, there’s this subtle (or not-so-subt...

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19:35

Suffering As the Most Ordinary Thing

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/06/14

For a long time I was convinced that suffering was for other people. I thought, I have enough to eat, a nice home, a great partner and child. Where is the suffering? But I was missing the fundamentals. I was failing to see that this being human in & of itself is challenging. We have to shop, cook, clean, brush our teeth, pay our bills. We get a cold, we stub a toe, we get nasty emails and we still have to do our job. And that’s just the everyday.What if we paid attention to this kind...

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19:29

The End of Suffering

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/06/07

The way I see it, we have two choices. We can rail against reality and exhaust ourselves. Or we can find a way to leaving the room, the house, the office, the world, the moment, a little bit better every time, no matter how we’re feeling or what’s happening around us. We can learn to let go of wanting things to be other than they are.Door number one: suffering. Door number two: the end of suffering.

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20:17

Not This Not That

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/05/31

I feel like at this moment in a relatively long life so far, I should be able to say yes to certain things, no to others, and be able to count on things remaining relatively stable. Do you have that feeling?And yet I can’t because they’re not: nothing is either this certain thing or that. Nothing is truly solid, reliable, permanent. And the more energy I put into thinking it should be, the more struggle I’m in. When I can remember that my work, my home, my family, my life, are not defina...

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20:19

Finding Someone To Insult You

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/05/24

It should be easy to find someone to insult us, on social media, for example, or from among our snarkiest friends. I feel like I want to find someone every day, or let them find me, because they help me to see where I’m holding back, where I’m stuck. If you're looking for that, too, what happens when someone shows up and we just get defensive? Or we don’t listen in order to learn? And what if it’s not just one person? What if everyone is this friend, this teacher, and every insult ...

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20:18

Four Ways To Be Still In Difficult Moments

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/05/17

When something or someone upsets me, I’m quick to blame. I’m slower to remember to simply sit still, with upset, anger, fear, or sorrow.When I’m upset, sometimes I think I’m the only one who feels like I do, or who’s having the problems I’m having. But that’s never the case: everyone gets upset, frustrated, bummed out, and scared, at some point or other.When I can remember that, and learn from it – meaning, learn from the difficult moments – things feel lighter. I take things less personally....

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20:43

Learning to Stop Strategizing

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/05/10

The more I learn about mindfulness, the more I realize I’m not solving for anything. I’m just learning to stop strategizing.The world is beautiful and full of love, and also, torn up by war, overwhelming, uncertain at best. To me the most natural response has been to strategize. How could I possibly get by without a plan?But I’m beginning to see that a more mindful response is to do just that. Of course we have to know how to do our job well, how to love well, know the route home. Yet moment ...

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19:25

Groundlessness/Feet On The Ground

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/05/03

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20:03

Meditation That Unlocks Wisdom

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/04/26

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18:27

Making Enthusiasm Cool Again

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/04/19

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20:00

Patience With Ourselves

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2024/04/12

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