Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Battling Stress: Coping with the legal substance, without substance.

“Wellness” in its true sense isn’t about being perfect; rather it is about nourishing your body as well as your spirit. It is known to us that attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits leads to loss of balance and control of one’s life.
A Lawyer is one such professional who has an extra-ordinarily complicated and busy lifestyle. The court dates and the client meetings along with a million other responsibilities which come along with the job are expected to be met with efficiently and on time. Tackling such an amount of work is not for the faint-hearted.
Studies show that lawyers lead a kind of lifestyle in which they are not healthy, they are not happy, or they feel like they are on a one way track to ill health, unhappiness and lack of fulfillment in life. Why is it so? Maybe because when we practice law, we tell ourselves that having a successful career would mean sacrificing that health and happiness in our lives. This kind of thinking would definitely hike up the stress level even more.
Unrealistic deadlines by clients
Clients are always setting unrealistic deadlines upon their lawyers to get any work done. Sometimes the associates of a law firm are made to work overnight in order to meet a deadline. But what we forget to consider is the level of productivity, which drastically decreases with each passing hour. A person is bound to make serious mistakes in his work if he is made to work for more than 8 hours a day, let alone 15-20 hours.
Multi-tasking
Multitasking can seem like an advantage, especially in the business world, but constantly performing several tasks at once can lead to a drop in productivity. The bad effects of multitasking take their toll by not allowing you to recover from excessive stimulation that bombards you on a daily basis. Be aware of the negative side effects of trying to accomplish too much at once, and complete one task at a time to regain control over your responsibilities. The bad effects of multitasking for a lawyer can take their toll on your life and livelihood. Last thing we need in our hectic lives is to make things more complicated and more difficult to attempt 10 tasks at a time.
Yoga
Stress cannot be dissolved without any solution. Meditation can be a helping hand to eradicate stress. It makes one feel more energetic and enthusiastic which in turn helps deliver better quality of work. The best part of yoga is it keeps your mind body healthy. Be it an athlete or a businessman or a lawyer, a fit mind and body is needed to sustain a happy life.
In a world where time stops for no one, where medication is needed to escape stress, a lawyer’s job is to put people at ease and to bring a solution to their problems using their skills. Owing to that, the lawyer must be the last person to fall in the clutches of stress and medications. Yoga is one of the best ways to remedy stress every lawyer should adopt to be stress free. Even closing one’s eyes for 10 minutes or so can drastically improve one’s immunity and inner senses, thereby help the individual feel the contentment in life (if only for those 10 minutes).
Breaks.

Taking frequent and short breaks can actually make you more productive. Lawyers are dealt with work load which at best can be described as humungous and sometimes, even the effect of getting up and stretching your body for 2 minutes will eradicate at least 30% of the stress. Positive vibes are essential to be present at any workplace. The aura that surrounds any individual is depicted by the way they communicate not only with their clients, but also with their colleagues and their boss. Communication about some things non-work related can bring out the real you and make you feel more comfortable.

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