The Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief

Changing your Story…Lessons 3–5

Marc W. Crayton
3 min readSep 13, 2024

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”-Sir Winston Churchill

Welcome back or welcome to, the Lawyer’s Well-being Brief. Every week, I share insights and tools to help us improve our well-being. This week and over the course of the next few weeks. I’m sharing lessons from Changing Your Story: How To Take Control Of Your Life, Create Change and Achieve Your Goals written by Bill Beswick.

A Quick Recap on who Bill Beswick is and what Changing Your Story: How To Take Control Of Your Life, Create Change And Achieve Your Goals is about?

Bill Beswick is an acclaimed performance psychologist. Beswick is well-regarded for his contributions to sports psychology, particularly in the context of team dynamics, motivation, and mental resilience.

Changing Your Story explores how we can all overcome our fears, boost our performance, and achieve success. This is a book about change. Anything is possible when you realize it’s never too late to switch direction and change your story.

Lesson 3: “Change Your Story-Learn to be a Winner”

Very often, our first interpretation of a situation is to perceive it as a problem, distorted by…

--

--

Marc W. Crayton

I help newer, younger lawyers make better well-being decisions so that they can thrive personally and professionally. Forward, always!