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Sharpening the Saw
In his classic book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey describes the practice of sharpening your saw. He's talking about the habit of working on maintaining and improving your skills and the tools you use in your business. I know how hard it can be...
How to Interrupt Staff Interruptions
Jeff has lots of legal work to do and he wants to do it during the workday - not on nights and weekends. He was using the strategies I teach - like blocking the time for his legal work - but he was constantly interrupted by paralegals and staff. So he never got into...
One Giant Leap To Attorney Productivity Profit
You are building a successful law practice with happy clients. It's exactly what you were trying to do. Except now you have so much going on that it feels like you're playing "Whack a Mole" all day long. No matter how hard you try - or how long you work - it feels...
Injured
Life changes in an instant, in an ordinary instant. This is how Joan Didion opens her shatteringly powerful memoir, A Year of Magical Thinking. And it does… change in an instant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2ZvYHx-CA...
THAT UGLY THING THEY’RE GOING TO FIND OUT
I’m always fascinated by people who have a love/hate relationship with attention. Maybe because I do, too. Turn a video camera on me when I haven’t spent hours primping and preparing, and I choke. Like I’ve got a 6-oz ribeye lodged in my throat. Take my friend, who...