Jean Cumming
Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL
fortuna favet fortibus
JANUARY 2013
VOLUME 14 NO. 3
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Fear Itself
MOST HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL lawyers are quite committed to physical fitness.
You comprise the type of gym regulars who bemoan the New Year's resolution
visitors in January. You help sustain the hot yoga studios, tennis clubs, marathons
and ski lodges throughout the land. It explains why so many of you look 10 years
younger than your age. One would think it also helps alleviate stress. And yet.
In considerable numbers, you sound stressed, anxious or depressed. e current
economy and the shiing paradigm of the profession are preoccupying, and under-
standably so, but is all this worrying really worth it? No, and it doesn't help anyway.
For example, why, if you have slightly less work these days, are you staying at the
office longer than ever? e famous Canadian boxer, George Chuvalo, tells this story
about his father: Steve Chuvalo worked at a physically demanding job in a Toronto
slaughterhouse. Having lived through the Depression, he was too scared of losing
his job to take holidays. One year, his employer forced him to finally use some of his
vacation time. e family never knew he was on holidays, however, because every day
he went to work and sat and watched the two men replacing him do his job.
Even with a crippled arm, it took two men to do his job. He must have been in
great physical shape. Like you. But how mentally and emotionally difficult it must
have been for him to live with such fear.
ere are several antidotes to fear available to you. Choose from among them
wisely. It would be a shame to undercut all that physical exercise.
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