Industry Trawl Leads to the Secret of Happiness

Corporate Blawg is a well-rounded individual, and not just in stature.  Clients do not want a young spunky solicitor to be solely focussed on paper trails, puppy dogs tales and disclosure requirements.  They want a balanced, healthy, best-living dialectic that uses an industry commodity of knowledge to their best logical advantage.
          It is in this vane, flapping in the wind, spurting from the aorta, that Corporate Blawg has indulged in the intricacies of the health sector, as one of his many pet-interests.  In his diverse practice Corporate Blawg has provided bountiful advice to all heights of the NHS, all host of private healthcare providers and to a raft of buoyant biotech and pharmaceutical megaliths.  Accordingly, Corporate Blawg regularly undertakes a market-review during which he spends several modicums looking at these particular industries.  And so, Corporate Blawg has discovered the following two gems published in the research pages of the most recent edition of the British Medical Journal:
           The first is a report on research carried out by Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust on "Sword swallowing and its side effects".  The ground-breaking research states that:

"Sword swallowers know their occupation is dangerous."

The report describes in graphic detail the horrors of this "entertainment".  Following his reading of said research Corporate Blawg wishes to set up a pressure group to prevent this disgusting and inhumane act from being part of the "entertainment" encouraged by circuses and practiced amongst teenagers:

"Some respondents swallowed a sword easily, but mastery for most required daily practice over months or years. The gag reflex is desensitised, sometimes by repeatedly putting fingers down the throat, but other objects are used including spoons, paint brushes, knitting needles, and plastic tubes before the swallower commonly progresses to a bent wire coat hanger."

          The second report on research, that is particularly worthy of note to non-medics, is titled Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union. This inspired research investigates whether the (uninspiring) comfort food of the Danes is contributory to their happiness, or whether such happines is due to the large percentage of blondes in the populace (a hypothesis dispelled by comparison with the Swedish). Ultimately, the research concludes that the reason the Danes are so smug is that:

"Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations for the year to come. Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark."

          So there we go - the trick to happiness is to lower your expectations (which may be why Corporate Blawg is always so happy with off-the-bone chicken from KFC until chicken juice splurts down his new coat).  The lesson here for lawyers is in the way we deal with our clients, especially where fee estimates are either too high, or overshot.  In order to manage expectations, just a little more value needs to be delivered, and a few less trans-fats.
          Corporate Blawg hopes that he has also disseminated the value of generally keeping abreast of new developments in client's industries.  Such abreastation (new word) of personal interests not-only improves one's practice in those areas but also increases one's enjoyment of the daily working life! Hoorah for the new year.

Comments

[Cheerful Bunny]

I have to disagree with you, Corporate Blawg on one fundamental error...

The Danes comfort food includes bacon sandwiches, which are, by far the best comfort food in the world. Rock on Denmark.