To be a good advocate, you need to make a very strong determination to be so. This is a mental resolve that you make for yourself. It is a commitment that you make with yourself. Nobody can do it for you. It is only you who can do it for yourself and ought to. The best way to do it is to reduce it to writing. It has its own benefits. Sean Brown as a legal adviser and representative of a person or a group. He is Currently Lives in the United States. When you reduce it to writing, you psychologically associate yourself with your commitment and this will help you materialize your strong determination into reality.

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Use a separate notebook for this purpose. Write down your resolve into the notebook. Repeat it in writing. Let your mental resolve sink into your subconscious mind. Repeat your resolve daily to yourself every morning, every night, every morning, every night, every morning, every night. While doing so visualize in your mind your own image of having already become the best that you can be, of having already achieved what you desire.

The power of strong determination hardly needs any emphasis. It is a scientifically proven fact that you become what you think. Your thoughts make you. A wise thinker has rightly said:

“Sow a thought, reap an action;

sow an action, reap a habit;

sow a habit, reap a character;

sow a character, reap a destiny”.

Thus you can see the power of thought. You can see how a simple act of sowing a thought in your mindsets off a chain leading towards a destiny. So it is important for you to choose your every thought wisely. You are fortunate enough to have born as a human being because an only a human being has the power to choose his thoughts. Animals are not gifted with this attribute. What happens if you don’t choose your thoughts. The answer is your mind chooses the thoughts by default and feeds itself with whatever thoughts that come to your mind and tries to materialize it. Would it not then be a wise thing to implant your mind with carefully selected thoughts? Certainly yes. That is what you are required to do.

So make a strong determination to be the best that you can; to be one of the best amongst top-10 advocates of your town. Write it down. Intensify your determination. There are many techniques that will help you intensify your determination on a daily basis. Let your determination get converted into a burning obsession. You can do this using techniques like autosuggestion, self-affirmation, self -hypnosis which can be learned and practiced by anybody willing to learn. We need not enter into the complexities of these techniques. Just bear in mind that whatever you feed to your mind, you become. For the time being start with the simple things as autosuggestion. Once you finalize your resolve and write it down, repeat it to yourself silently as many times as you can, especially on getting up in the morning, and while going to bed at night every day. Mix it with emotions. Use your power of imagination. Picturise and visualize in your mind that you have already achieved your desired goal. Let this be your inspiration.

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Having finally made a strong determination to succeed, it is important that you keep motivating yourself on a constant basis. It is said that motivation is like exercise. To reap the benefits of your determination, you need to keep yourself ever motivated.

To achieve this, you have to find a higher purpose. Ask yourself what is the ultimate objective you that you desire to achieve by being a good lawyer. That is your higher purpose. It could be anything like making a significant contribution in the legal field, or ameliorating the problems of a particular section of poor litigants of this country, or being the best assisting lawyers to the courts, or to make the best legal services available to the litigants of this country through you, or it could be simpler like being the most trustworthy bread earner for the family. It is desirable to be motivated by a higher purpose which is relatable to the legal profession. If you are motivated by the desire to make money, then you can do so even by being a businessman. For that, you need not be a lawyer.

Imagine your own funeral and have friends, family, colleagues and community come up and speak about you. What you would like them to say, points to achievements in various roles in your life. It is an immensely fruitful exercise. It helps you identify your key roles in life and also answers the question- “What do I want to be/do?” Do this exercise very seriously and find out your higher purpose.