How To Overcome Set Backs

For most of my life, things just sort of worked out.  This doesn’t mean that it was easy or that I didn’t face disappointments or have to overcome setbacks.  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. In the beginning, it did.  I worked hard, and 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. It was difficult for me to concentrate or to feel good. My blood pressure swings ranged from too high to dangerously low. My body was going through so much that doctors recommended entirely different treatment plans depending on the day that I saw …