Catching that wave...and thoughts from Dafnis Prieto

Yesterday I formally announced my firm reopening on my LinkedIn.

First, what a wave of positive energy and support from our incredible legal community. I love the support and look forward to continuing to give back to a community that gives so much.

This morning I've been sitting with a piece of my post which is part of my tag line “Trained. Organized. Experienced.” Here's part of what I posted yesterday about this:

“Organized: I have presented twice recently with Trial Guides about case management and organization. Feeling that Virgo Power for sure. And as Benny Greb says "you must think about technique so you don't need to think about technique." I've developed systems over years of tracking legal information to have an organized bank to use. All this is so I can work cases to always be on the offense with calculated strategy based on my organized bank and systems.”

Ok, so more thoughts…

This morning I've been revisiting an article in Drumset Magazine about Dafnis Prieto (a wonderful musician and drummer), where he was posed the thought:

"The performance has to transcend personal emotion, otherwise it's not really demonstrating professionalism, but it also has to succeed at delivering the intended emotion."

His response was: "[t]hat's right. I always tell my students that they have to practice something until they get to the point that they feel 150% good about it. That way, if everything goes wrong, you're playing at 100%. You have to have the endurance and be able to build that character. That level of professionalism demands efficiency in your work ethic."

That brings me back to my Benny Greb comment I posted above.

All this ties to my thought about organization and structure. The more organization and structure you have, the more room for artistic creativity you have. The stronger foundation you have, the more space you have to be spontaneous and be able to read the room accurately, to be able to present the art the way that will best connect with the audience (judges and jurors usually in my case).

And then there’s this quote: "[w]e don't rise to the occasion. We fall to our highest level of training."

Some attribute this to Bruce Lee, although other research shows it may be attributable to the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. The first time I heard this phrase, it came from a good friend and fantastic trial lawyer Noah Moss, so I'm going to credit it to him!

This all circles back to my thought about being organized and how I'm very proud of that. Because the best way to work hard is to work smart.

The smarter you work, the more impact you have when you're working hard. I look forward to doing that for all my personal injury clients.

Catching that wave! Pictured below, Pacific Beach's Crystal Pier from this fine morning!

-Eric