Children, no children. Be social, stay at home. Go to church, be an atheist. Spend large sums on a rental home, invest the money. Gridlock. Gridlock is part of the fabric of being a couple, especially a two-professional couple where time is a premium and consistent dialogue about personal issues is not very common. However, […]
So, Bill Clinton will be fast and furious on the campaign trail supporting Hillary’s bid for the Presidency. Good news or bad news? In 2004, Howard Dean’s spouse, Judith Steinberg Dean, stayed more “stage right” and was seen infrequently. Good news or bad news? The question that surfaces is this: Can two full-time, fully-engaged-in-a-professional-life partners […]
I’m excited to share some thoughts about lawyers in relationship with you this week. Why relationships? In addition to my work as a life and business coach, I have dedicated much of my coaching practice to support couples in relationship. Having been in a 15-year failed marriage, and married to one who had been in […]
“Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today’s world, it has become a necessity.” Unknown “Vacation is what you take when you can’t take what you’ve been taking any longer.” Unknown “Isn’t it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They’ve cleared up all of their to-do piles, […]
I was visiting DC earlier this week and flew out on a 7 AM flight. Thanks to the early hour and my grogginess, I put my regular reading material to the side and spent some time reading Business Traveler magazine, dreaming about luxury travel. And then I happened across an article titled Flight Fright, which […]
I am excited to join the fanfare introducing BlawgWorld 2007. (Download your free copy by clicking the image above or this link.) This nifty eBook includes posts selected from 77 of the “most influential” legal blogs, addressing practice management issues, substantive issues, technology issues, and more. I am honored that Life at the Bar is included. If you […]
I was in a Starbucks last week reading Beyond the Big Firm: Profiles of Lawyers Who Want Something More. (Review forthcoming.) A man sat down at the table next to me, carrying 3 or 4 bar review books, and looking somewhat frazzled. He kind of nodded to me, and I nodded at his books and […]
One of the interesting things about coaching is that periodically, the topics on which I’m coaching someone will rise up and smack me in the face. Pride may go before a fall, but working with someone else on an issue they’re facing seems highly likely in some bizarre cosmic way to raise the same issue […]
It occurred to me this week that there’s (at least) one activity that, perhaps counterintuitively, is a foundation of work/life balance and productivity: recreation. While coaching a client this week and introducing Stephen Covey’s Urgent/Important quadrant system for prioritizing and completing tasks, I explained that true recreation — something that’s re-energizing, that “re-creates,” rather than passive […]
All writers have their favorite pieces, and while I wouldn’t necessarily elevate blogging to author status, I certainly have my favorite posts. One of them is Relationship or one-night stand: how law firms view associates(and clients). It’s a favorite for two reasons: first, it draws on an article about client development by David Maister to […]