Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone to really make a difference.
I have been working at firms since I graduated law school. Working for someone else. Building someone else's business for them. Having someone else breathing down your neck, checking on your work everyday. Not being able to submit briefs under your own name.
My husband has been a solo-practitioner for the same amount of time. He has been working for himself since we graduated law school and doing a great job!
We decided when we were in law school that we worked well together and that we should start our own firm someday. We had plans to call it, McDowell & McDowell.
Looking back, I was just too scared to step out of my comfort zone and take a leap of faith to do it right out of school like my courageous husband did. God knew that. He placed me in firms where I could get comfortable learning the law under someone else's name. I don't know if you can really call what I did a leap of faith since God had to almost force me out of a firm recently in order for me to start working with my husband.
But he prepared me for the big day weeks before it happened and by the time it happened, I was ready. I was actually excited. After I signed my resignation letter, I smiled all the way to my car. I had faith that I was doing what God wanted me to do, and I no longer had any fear about the future.
The minute I quit my firm and became partners with my husband, something happened that I did not anticipate. I felt like a heavy burden was lifted from my shoulders. My husband told me that I looked less stressed and happier instantly. He said he knew exactly what happened when I walked into his office at 3:30pm smiling from ear to ear. My new office building owner told me that same day that I "looked younger." That was I how I felt. Younger. Less Stressed. Happier.
If I would have just listened to my husband and God sooner and not given into my fears, I could have avoided two years worth of stress and years worth of aging.
Now it's time ... time to step out of my comfort zone... time to listen to God... and time to make a difference!! Get ready for McDowell & McDowell, LLC!!
