The Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief

Creativity is not reserved for a select few!

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome (back) to the Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief! Each week, I share insights and practical strategies to help us cultivate well-being and thrive — both personally and professionally. Live well! Lawyer well!

This week we are looking at Rick Rubin’s Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being. The Creative Act isn’t just a book about making music or art — it’s about how to live. At its core, Rubin reminds us that creativity is not reserved for a select few. It is available to all of us, in the way we cook a meal, solve a problem at work, raise our children, or even in how we choose to spend an afternoon. Creativity is not about perfection — it’s about presence. Learn more about Rick Rubin here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin

Rubin’s The Creative Act reminds us that creativity isn’t just about painting canvases or writing songs — it’s about how we live each day. When we see creativity as a way of being, the small choices we make — what we notice, how…