I Love Your Being a Lawyer; I Hate Your Being a Lawyer
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; ABA meeting; Introducing guest blogger Peter Vajda
“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, […]
Feeling a bit out of control? Welcome to law — and life.
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 […]
Introducing BlawgWorld 2007: get your free copy today!
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 […]
Creating “work/life balance”: 5 steps to success
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 […]
The reset button
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 […]
Recreation: a foundation of balance and productivity
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 […]