While it really hadn’t occurred to me until this evening when I was gettin ready to write my daily 500-words, I really did absolutely nothing today that resembles working as a new solo (although I sat down and reviewed another attorney’s revisions of a letter I wrote yesterday before writing this). I think this is the first time since I went full-solo that I hadn’t done something related to my new business.
Sometimes, you have to take a break
It was a much needed break. I’ve been working up to 12-hour days and hustling constantly to get up to speed on being a lawyer. While this hustle is probably necessary, or at least it is something that I feel like I need to do, it was really nice to spend time today with my kids and wife. We went shopping, we had a nice breakfast at church, and the wife and I even went on a little coffee date this evening.
Taking a break helps me reflect
That said, I did some reflection after realizing that if I take time off I don’t really have a lot to talk about for a blog post. This led me to think about not having something to talk about for a blog post even on many of the days that I do work all day on my new business. So I think starting Monday I am going to change the way I work on this blog a little bit. I’m still going to try to post every day, but I am going to spend more time during my day researching an idea or topic for the blog to make it more coherent and less like a end of the day mental dump.
I might even spend some time working on a sort of schedule, so that on Mondays I talk about productivity tools, Tuesdays are ethics days, Wednesdays are whatever, and so on. I’d like to do a recap of the week on Sundays, because although I am planning on writing daily blog posts, I am not sure that this is going to be a compelling read after a year of writing unless I do something to give the posts more form and structure. I can only talk about getting on appointments lists and new marketing so many times before I, as well as any readers, get tired of the same thing recycled.
Don’t call it self-care
As much as I hate to sound overly spiritual or fru-fru, one of the topics I think I am going to want to talk about is “Self-Care”, although I doubt I’m going to be able to bring myself to call the topic “Self-Care” because that makes me think of Yoga Instructors and Spiritual Healers, which I don’t know if I want to associate myself with. Nonetheless, I am aware that being a lawyer is a pretty stressful profession, and I’ve seen the horrible statistics about lawyer suicides and lawyer depression, so I think “Taking Care of Yourself” is probably something I’d like to talk about. And, sometimes, not being a lawyer for a day is what I need to recharge my batteries and take care of myself.
And some ridiculous, ego driven fun
Finally, for something kind of fun and maybe mildly neurotic, I got a stamp of my logo made last week. It arrived last night. I like the idea of being able to stamp folders I give to clients and other promotional material with the logo, so I am excited to have the stamp. I’ll get to stamping folders, et cetera, but for now I’ve been having fun stamping my kids, covers of my books, and a lot of other random stuff around the house with my logo. I even found myself looking at the pit bull last night wondering if a logo stamp would work on her forehead. I refrained.