Fighting Your Own Battles

For our new office, I ordered 13 lateral filing cabinets. While away from the office I get a call from the shipper that the cabinets have arrived and I need to be there to sign for the delivery. I rush back to the office where I see two pallets full of filing cabinets stacked in […]

When Your “Why” Is In Conflict

I’ll never forget the first time I saw my first office as a practicing lawyer. A black glass building 15 stories high with floor-to-ceiling windows. High school, four years of college, four years of night law school while I worked full-time and a grueling week of pressure called the bar exam. For this, I was […]

We Are Eachothers Anti-Depressant

I cannot help but notice that anxiety and depression have reached epidemic proportions. I just saw today that the granddaughter of Robert F Kennedy died from a mental health issue. A great young pitcher from the California Angels named Tyler Skaggs died this season from mental health issues. I have always tried to help our […]

We Choose Our Memories

I believe our lives are a series of shared experiences. In the end, we have the memories we make with other people, both good and bad. Which memories of our experiences we let control our thoughts and feelings is a choice. I will use my desk to help me tell this story. The desk in […]

Putting Fear At Our Backs

At the beginning of my career, I met a lawyer who I came to idolize. This man sounded like a doctor when he talked. I learned from this man that knowing the medicine involved in a medical case is of the utmost importance, and I will be forever grateful. I also learned a painful lesson. […]

Sharing Your Why

I sat down on a plane next to a young woman and her boyfriend. I struck up a conversation, and I learned the woman was a recording artist who goes by the artist name Whipped Cream. She was on her way to play a show. Her music is called “dubstep,” which is hard-hitting and has bass […]