Seven Quotes To Help You to Rise

Use Both Sides of Your Brain

Lawyers are good at thinking with their?prefrontal cortex, the brain's rational part.

The prefrontal cortex responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences.

More is needed is needed, however, to have a truly extraordinary law practice.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence for lawyers is important because it helps you to connect with your feelings, turn intention into action.

This allows you to make informed decisions about what matters most to you.

The four domains of Emotional Intelligence each can help any lawyer or leader face any crisis with lower levels of stress, less emotional reactivity and fewer unintended consequences.

These four domains are:

? self awareness,

? self management,

? social awareness, and

? relationship management?

Although emotional intelligence was not emphasized in law school, it is up to each attorney to seek to grow and develop these strengths for a successful law practice.

There are always lessons to learn by reading the words of others. Maya Angelou is a great teacher of emotional intelligence through her words.

7 Quotes to Strengthen Our Emotional Intelligence

Maya Angelou masterfully made her words sing a message that even though she is gone, still gives us encouragement that makes us stronger.

I will deliver a message of hope to lawyers today by using Maya's words. I will put a star next to her quote.

Lesson 1: Love and live your life fully.

?? "I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences."

Lesson 2: Make sure that you like who you see in the mirror each day.

?? "We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay — and rise!"

Lesson 3: Value yourself because if you don't, no one else will.

??" Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."

Lesson 4: Your most important asset is courage

?? "Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without it, no other virtue can be practiced consistently. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

Lesson 5: If you can't change the circumstances, you can always change your perspective.

?? "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking."

Lesson 6: Find the love for your law practice. If you have lost it, then do everything you can to restore your love for practicing the law.

?? "You can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you."

Lesson 7: Your mission is to thrive despite the difficulties you may face

?? "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

About Maya Angelou:

Maya Angelou believed that when we made good deeds to the world, the world would reward us in unbelievable ways.?Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

— Maya Angelou’s final tweet, May 23, 2014, May she Rest In Peace.

?? "Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."

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