Health / Wellness, Money

Why Do Lawyers Have Such A Dysfunctional Relationship With Money?

If your identity as a lawyer is tied to how much money you make, it's time to give that up.

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Ed. note: This post is by Jeena Cho, a Legal Mindfulness Strategist. She is the co-author of The Anxious Lawyer (affiliate link), a book written by lawyers for lawyers that makes mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable. She is the creator of Mindful Pause, a self-paced online program for creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and productive law practice in just six minutes a day. Jeena offers actionable change strategies for reducing stress and anxiety while increasing productivity, joy, and satisfaction through mindfulness.

One of the most common causes for lawyer stress is money. We trade time for money in six-minute increments and therefore there’s never enough time. Every single one of us gets 1,440 minutes per day. Time is one of our most precious resources. And we dole it out in 0.1 hours.

This leads to an obscure result where every billable hour is treated exactly the same, and the goal is to always bill more.

On top of this, we’re supposed to find time for family, friends, hobbies, exercise, vacation, and meditation.

I remember being a young lawyer — finally having arrived at my dream job. I had the fancy office with a view of the bay. I had a job which allowed me to practice in an area of law I always wanted to practice in, with a healthy salary and benefits. Yet, I constantly felt as though I was treading water, trying desperately to stay afloat. To stop from drowning in the endless mountain of work.

Read the entire article over at Jeena’s website…

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