Always be prepared to reinvent yourself.  Do not rest on your laurels.  Continue to look for the next challenge.  Getting stale is not a positive thing—not for bread and not for lawyers!

Most of you got A’s all of your life.  In law practice, while also assuming responsibilities of home and family, you may get some B’s and C’s.  That is OK.  You learn more from the C’s anyway—like humility and perspective—and the most important thing is that you do your best always.

A friend of  mine is going through a difficult transition, but she has a wonderful optimism and gains perspective from this quote by the late Gilda Radner, actress and comedian of Saturday Night Live fame:

“I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle , and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.  Delicious ambiguity.”

You don’t have to demand perfection.  You just have to keep an open mind, take advantage of opportunities and enjoy the ride.

Win fairly and squarely.  Anything less is not worth it.