What if there was a system that, once learned, could recover at least 2 hours of productive time each day?
What would you do with the time?
How would you use the extra day?
Would you leave on time so you could spend time with the family?
How about some “you” time to just recharge and do something fun?
Yes, you can (and should) do that and more.
Yet the most important single hour in your week is the time you spend working ON your practice – rather than IN it grinding through the legal work.
Now, I’d love if you’d spend more than an hour – but an hour is the minimum to start.
You are working ON your practice when you do things like:
- Setting monthly and quarterly goals – so you have something to drive to.
- Checking on your strategic plan and making adjustments.
- Creating a system to make your intake more effective and profitable.
- Learning to delegate more effectively.
- Developing your most important asset – yourself.
- Making sure your systems and infrastructure don’t let you down at the worst possible moment.
Here’s an example. One of my clients is a criminal defense attorney in the Western US. He makes a fair amount of money defending those caught driving marijuana across state lines. One of the things we are working on is a plan to replace that revenue when that activity is no longer illegal.
That’s working ON the practice – rather than waiting to react and recover.
Working ON your practice is a challenge when you try to do it yourself.
It is easy when you have a guide who’s been down the road many times before – for many types of businesses, including ones just like yours.
Here are the steps:
1. Start recovering the time that is slipping away every day – that’s the 10 hours a week.
2. Decide how you’re going to use the time you recover. It will help you with step 1 – because you’ll see how important it is.
3. Decide on the first thing that you’ll do to work ON your practice.
And if you’d like help with any of that, including my time management quiz to help you find where you’re leaking time just send me an email: [email protected]
Onward!
Doug
P.S… I’m working on a new time management program and I’d love your feedback. What are your top two questions about taking back 10 hours a week that you don’t see answered anywhere else? Click here to let me know – and get an answer.