Posted with Permission of the Author, Stephen M. Nipper

     The best book I read in 2009 was Seth Godin’s “The Dip.” If you haven’t read it, DO.

     In “The Dip,” Godin mentions the following passage from the Declaration of Independence:

     …all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

     My challenge to my fellow attorneys is this:  if there is an “evil” you are suffering or see others suffering, whether that “evil” be personal, professional, or societal, do something about it.  Maybe that means fixing broken relationships.  Maybe that means ending other relationships.  Maybe that means righting a wrong.  Whatever it means to you, and no matter how uncomfortable it is in the short term, deal with it.  Let 2010 be the year that you started enjoying life again.

[note:  the above appeared in JD Supra's post on "Lawyers-Legal Professionals Looking Ahead to 2010" (which is worth reading too)]