Time management, boundaries, delegation, and life-first strategies for law firm owners who want more freedom without sacrificing firm growth.
9 Tips for Better Email Management In the 15 minutes it took me to write this, I received three emails. Whether that feels like a lot or a little to you is kind of irrelevant, because we have to start with this question: Do you want to get fewer emails, or do you want to
Read MoreWhat Do You Want? I find myself saying this over and over again, oftentimes to myself (thankfully, quietly in those instances). Last week, I was on a cruise, and I found myself complaining about a lot of stuff. Thankfully, other than my son slicing his face open (he’s fine now), nothing was serious, it was
Read MoreWhat do Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, and Leonard from The Big Bang Theory have to do with making you a happier lawyer? They were all in a movie called In Time. In the film, everyone stops aging at 25. After that, time becomes currency. You work to earn time, and when your clock runs out,
Read MoreYou know the expression, we are what we eat? Well, apparently I ate a fat guy. But I am working on it. I am about one third of the way through 75 Hard and currently down ten pounds. Because instead of being what we eat, I think we are what we do every day. Last
Read MoreI promise you we did not intentionally delay the newsletter on Delayed Gratification. Nor did I get abducted by aliens. I will explain you next week why we got delayed with this newsletter, but without further ado, here’s the Delayed Gratification newsletter. The scene: my dining room in the mid-afternoon The players: me and the
Read MoreEver felt like your business tasks rival the complex storylines of comic book multiverses? Where the crossovers have crossovers and nothing makes sense anymore (like Obi-Wan not recognizing C3PO and R2D2 when Luke shows up with Leia’s message). Don’t worry. There’s a legendary tool wielded by effective leaders like President Dwight Eisenhower designed to help
Read MoreWhat do Yoda, Albert Einstein and all the successful lawyers I coach have in common? They all know the power of habits. Whether Yoda meditating daily to stay strong in the Force, Einstein having a solid work routine at the patent office and then having time for walks or thinking, and my clients building the
Read MoreI am really stuck on this idea that we are what we do consistently. That’s helped me focus down. Basically you take the big goals, break them up into the consistent steps needed to get to them, and then turn that into the ideal month, then the ideal week, and then the day to day.
Read MoreI need to apologize for something. As much as I talk about being more efficient and getting more stuff done in less time…I realized that I have not been hard enough on multitasking. Multitasking is the bane of modern knowledge worker’s existence. This is why serfs in medieval times worked fewer hours than the average person
Read MoreWe all hate email. Do you know why modern email is the way it is? It can get WAY more complicated than this, but basically IBM built a server for internal use in the 1970s and then sold it to clients in the 1980s and viola. No fancy study about best practices. And really no
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And it’s not easy to build a successful business while maintaining a sense of control over your life, either. That’s why I’m here, to help you create the kind of life you will love to live. Yep, you can have your cake and eat it too. Who would want a cake they can’t eat? (even if I am more of a cookie/brownie type guy).