It Starts with an Idea

This website started as an idea. What if I created a place to train young lawyers? A virtual platform with books, articles, forms, videos, etc.? A forum to improve one’s legal craft? A safe space? Once the idea was born, it took on a life of its own. Most ideas do. Once you give birth to them, afford them a bit of oxygen, they become combustible, capable of a conflagration.

Get into the habit of properly caring for and feeding your ideas. Let them germinate and percolate. Let in the sunshine and let them react to the elements. Not all ideas are great ideas. Some are quite terrible. But you won’t know the different between the good ones and the bad ones, between those which deserve to flourish and those that deserve to be tossed in the heap until you’ve held them up, studied them, reflected on them, given them their space and evaluate what they have to offer - offer to you, to others, to the community. And if you do come across an idea that is worth pursuing, understand that the idea is only the beginning. The hard part comes when you try to make that idea a reality. That’s what separates the girls and the boys from the women and the men. That’s when you discover your grit, your perseverance and what you’re made of.