How To Overcome Set Backs

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Up until fairly recently, things in my life always sort of worked out. This doesn’t mean that it was easy or that I didn’t face disappointments. It just means that what I set out to do, I usually accomplished. I wanted to go to a top law school on the east coast, done. I wanted to pass the bar in two states the first time. I did it. I wanted to get a “real legal job” and feel like a lawyer. Somehow I worked that out too.

So when I left my job to start a solo practice, I thought things would eventually work out in pretty much the same way, and in the beginning, it did. I worked hard, and there were disappointments. But more often than not I was successful.

Until I got sick.

At first, I thought it was physiological. I couldn’t sleep. I gained 20 pounds in 9 months. My blood pressure swung from extremely high to the point where one doctor wanted me to take blood pressure medication. To dangerously low and another doctor had an entirely different treatmen…