But, taking the time to think about what I ~want~ to accomplish, once I move ahead, helps me to frame and contextualize and prioritize.
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Then, I can actually start thinking about what I can do. I see what projects I can move on — which plans are more than just ideas.
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Then, I start doing. The emails, phone calls, research, reading, talking, going, thinking — all of the things that make this job such fun.
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(That often is followed by, for me, the worst parts, the transcription and the figuring out of *HOW* I tell this story! Thank you, editors!)
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And, eventually, stories happen. Sometimes this is all a 30-minute process when news breaks; other times, it takes months and months.
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Eventually, those blocks (stories or cases or classes or shifts) build up — and you find that you're taking your career in a direction.
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If you like that direction, keep going. If you don't, figure out what changes you need to make—and then start with the next, new small step.
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And then, one day, you'll be sitting at your desk and get an email reminding you that you're a lawyer who decided to become a journalist ...
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... and, seven years later, you got to fly to Alabama with the Attorney General of the United States and interview her on the flight home.
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It's not the path I planned, but it's a journey I am constantly and forever grateful to be on.
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#SCOTUS for opinions (and Paxton's presser?) in the morning, so, off to bed now. ... Night, all, and let us be good to one another.
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I wish I could have met you before I left TN, I love your work and your insights. Thank you for sharing you.
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