Reading Between The Lines

Between what was and what will be lies the here and now.  Twenty Three years of successfully practicing law for the benefit of my clients has made that awareness more and more acute as the years go by.  Recently I have come to realize that by setting aside what has happened and the hope of what may happen my clients and I have had productive meetings in preparing cases for trial by simply focusing on the facts that are established without interpretation colored by memory of how my client(s) wanted to remember what had happened and then establishing what those facts support.  The here and now is the place where strategy is born to present the facts from the past in a coherent chronology of what the precise truth was and remains, and what was the illusion of perspective from both sides of a dispute.  Success comes from the point between what was and what will be and plain and simple focus on that point and what it means to the fact pattern being investigated.

Pratlaw: WISHING YOU NOTHING BUT THE BEST

Fullfillment comes from within, never from without. If you are not happy and have not been with your spouse after counseling, and years of trying ~ just exactly why are you staying? For the 'kids' ~ what have they learned from you about relationships that they will carry into their futures?

Whether you decide to try again or leave and seek legal counsel I hope you will sit down with a pen and paper, alone, and write down just exactly where you want to be in 5 years and what you want to be doing ~ therein lies happiness. consult God in prayer ~ but write it down. If you have a hard time starting do this: write about who you were when you were 19 or 20, at least a year out of high school ~ what did you want out of life, where did you want to live, what did you want to be doing with your life? Why have you changed and do you want to be here and now or start ove where you were then? And why not reflect on who you were then and maybe get back on track?