From budgeting to finding a parking spot in the city, the right apps can make you a more efficient lawyer and a more focused human. Reliance on our smartphones is now the norm. 70% of lawyers report using a smartphone…
In our work with the legal community, we see a fair number of law students and lawyers who are somewhere in between the precontemplation and contemplation stages of change. The precontemplation stage is when the person is unaware of the need to change a particular behavior, has no interest in changing, minimizes the negative aspects of changing, and highlights the positive reasons for the status quo. The contemplation stage is when the person is aware that something needs to change, they might not know exactly what they need to do or what it will entail, but they have a desire to make a change in the near future.
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Lawyers have a range of unique stress, especially at this time of year. Here's how and why you should handle it this holiday season. Are you excited about holiday celebrations one day and overwhelmed by them the next? Do…
A fun little game to stir up regrets is to ask yourself what you would change from your past if you had a time machine. Would you take an opportunity that you missed? Would you refrain from doing something that had negative consequences? Would you face a fear? This exercise can highlight events in our past that, through hindsight, seem to be a detriment to our present life as we experience it. Regrets can uncomfortable, and at times downright painful. The major flaw of this game is that it devalues regrets, makes us wish for an impossible alternate reality, and often increases shame and helplessness.
It's hard for change-averse lawyers to compete over time. Here’s how to embrace all that progress requires in your career as a lawyer and leader. What do career development, leadership development, and business development have in common? Each is about…
Whether your bottom line is seeking more clients or new opportunities, strategic networking will help. Strategic networking is an outcome built on effective marketing and sales skills. And it's about more than accumulating as many referral connections as possible. The best…
In this edition of Webinars for Busy Lawyers, our expert team will give you the best practices of champion delegators - in 30 minutes. You're a lawyer, but you're only one human. There are hard limits on how much you…
Despite the widely held belief that standing firm in your positions is a sign of strength (the image of certainty, confidence, and success), strategically embracing ambiguity can be the secret to overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Specifically, the way we think about our circumstances and the potential future outcomes of our efforts can be greatly aided by keeping an open mind about various possibilities. Instead of relying on the certainty of having only one path to arrive at your goal, embrace the options of a network of paths that will increase your chances of arriving at your desired destination.
Anxiety lives in the future. It cannot exist in the present moment. If something bad is happening in the present moment, you might not like it, but you are not anxious about it. Anxiety requires the ambiguity of the future. The never-ending “what if” questions. You cannot ask “what if” questions about what has already happened, or what is currently happening. Anxiety thrives in the unknown.