The first two months after I left my job, I was really intense.  I tried to start my own law practice.  I went to seminars, classes, workshops, networking meetings and lunches.  I stayed busy.  At some point, something inside of me said “Stop! Do nothing.”  Doing nothing was foreign to me.  How could I not be productive?  I made myself follow my inner voice.  In doing nothing, I rediscovered myself, the self that I had willingly given away in exchange for a regular paycheck.

As I stopped all directed activity, as I grew more into my intuitive self, I began to read again, to listen to music again, to converse with people whose thoughts, beliefs, and opinions about the meanings of life didn’t revolve around working oneself to death for some unattainable happiness.  As some of us know, the treadmill to happiness never reaches its destination.  One must learn to be happiness – no matter what.  Robin Hart