Foundations No. 5 and 6: Email and Telephone

No. 844 Email seems to be made for lawyers. It is especially useful to solo practitioners who have long ago become their own secretaries. The time and money cost of sending and filing a letter has been reduced to a tiny fraction. You may well send twenty or thirty of them a day, maybe more. […]

Foundation 4: Manage Your Physical Environment

No. 843 We’ve been reviewing the Seven Foundations of Time Mastery by Julie A. Fleming, lawyer and consultant. She wrote this book in 2008 and recently brought out a revised version. It is a handy little book, full of ideas. It gives you an opportunity to collect your own ideas on the topics through workbook […]

Foundation of Time Mastery Three: Delegating Effectively

No. 842 This week we are exploring the Seven Foundations of Time Mastery for Attorneys, a book by Julie A. Fleming, attorney and consultant. Foundation 1 involved managing your energy and Foundation 2 was about setting priorities. Although lawyers think they are good at delegating, Fleming writes that most lawyer’s delegation skills are only passable. […]

Foundation 2: Set Priorities and Act Accordingly.

No. 841 The Second of the Seven Foundations of Time Mastery for Attorneys, as stated by Attorney and Consultant Julie A. Fleming, is to set priorities and use them to guide your actions.”Knowing your top priorities each day, ” she says,” increases the likelihood that you will accomplish (or t least advance) the most important […]

How Do Lawyers Measure Productivity?

Is daily hour twelve billed by an overworked lawyer equivalent to daily hour five? Did it produce an equally creative and effective work product as the hours expended when the lawyer was fresh and rested? There is no empirical way to answer these questions, but we all know the answer.

Julie A. Fleming: “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time.”

No. 839 “The reason is simple,” she says. “No matter how much time you have, without sufficient energy to perform at a high level during that time, you will not be able to accomplish much.” Anyone who must spend long hours at a computer keyboard will attest to that truth. You cannot read effectively, let […]

Quote of the Week: Miralanda Wilson on Finding the Mega-Millions Ticket.

No. 829 And you thought you were disorganized:

Time Management Ninja Post Worth Reading: “21 Things You Should Do to Get Ahead.”

No. 823 Take a few minutes for an outstanding Time Management Ninja post. CLT

Free Thinker.

Serious thinking requires one vital ingredient — the absence of distraction. You must have quiet. Thus, if you always turn on a radio or television to (I’ve been told) keep you company, you are depriving yourself of the opportunity to think. Instead of getting lost your own thoughts, your mind is filled up by someone else’s thoughts. There is nothing wrong with listening to others. What is wrong is abolishing any opportunity for quiet, reflective thought.

Think about it.

Who Am I?

No. 769 We have all spent a lifetime with ourselves. But do we really know the answer to the big question, “Who am I?” The answer resides in your mind. If you are good at socializing with people you just met but not so good at solving technical problems while working alone, you might think […]

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