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My friend Alyson Stanfield (the best business coach for artists), is having a great discussion on her blog about using other people’s photos as inspiration/reference for their artwork.
If you’re an artist, you should definitely know about Alyson and buy her book.
Hi Kevin ~
I finished reading your book last night and I’m so glad you’ve written it! It’s a much needed look at a more holistic picture of law school and what draws people to the law and what can potentially feed or drain them.
You’re absolutely right that people are often drawn to law school because they want to change or fix something in the world. It’s the call to action. Oftentimes that “change” thinking can take us out of being in the moment, because we are working toward what we believe will be a better future. It can stop us from seeing the perfection of now. Your book offers a path to balance future desires with the awareness of the present moment. This is crucial to practicing wholistic law and to living a more integrated life overall.
Your book emphasizes the organic or functional relation between the parts and the whole, instead of the tunnel vision that many people experience in law or medicine. I applaud your passion for getting these concepts out to this population at an early stage in their relationship with the law. Your perspective is essential to shifting the day-to-day experience that we have with the law, in order to create a world that works for all.
Thanks so much, Kevin, for sharing it with me.
With grace and love,
Maureen K. McCarthy
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My friend Don back in Iowa sent me these images from an email that’s going around. Of course he knows I’m a lawyer, and he also knows I’m a former Republican (now registered “unaffiliated”), and he was trying to pull my chain. I guess this post is proof he succeeded.
Granted, this can be interpreted either way – as a supporting vote for either Obama or McCain. However, the email itself was definitely meant to communicate that McCain/Palin is a better choice because they are NOT Lawyers.
Of course I’m biased by being a lawyer myself. You can’t get through law school without having a pretty thick skin relative to lawyer jokes, but this one is more important. I wouldn’t hire a doctor that had not been to medical school. It seems only logical that qualifications for being “hired” to support and maintain the Constitution and the other laws that are the foundation of our society MIGHT include some actual education relative to the subject… law school comes to mind.
The problem evidenced here is bigger than just the political debate. It goes to the heart of the failing reputation of the legal profession. This one is squarely on the lawyers. It’s squarely on the law schools. And it’s going to be on the law student.
I wrote my book Fuel The Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School and Beyond as a tool and a catalyst to start making this change. I’m not the only one that wants to EARN the respect of the general public again. We do that one lawyer or law professor or law student at a time.
I just signed the publishing contract for Fuel The Spark: 5 Guiding Values of Success in Law School and Beyond. It will be published on Joel Comm’s Made Easy Publishing imprint of Morgan James Publishing.
I’ll have a release date soon.
I’m getting ready to publish the first book in my 5 Guiding Values for Success series. The first is for law students (I know a little about what they’re going through). I just put up the new site for my books and speaking projects: KevinHouchin.com. The site is still under construction, and will be constantly, but you can take a look and read a sample chapter off the first book. If you’d like, you can also pre-order the book individually or in bulk by emailing me.
