What Fish and Animals Can Teach Us About How We Manage Stress

Just found a fairly quick reading and thought-provoking article on evaluating our stress styles on Kat Tansey’s blog titled: What’s your Stress Style: Hamster, Salmon, or Cat? . After reading this, I can honestly say that for years now I have been striving to be more like the cat described in this article….although if I’m [...]

Law Firm Leadership

By clicking here, you’ll pull up a copy of one of my articles on effective law firm leadership  – an often talked about subject, but not as often practiced.  This article also includes my simplistic self-audit for privately evaluating our own leadership characteristics.  And, I suggest an easy way to immediately start honing any leadership [...]

Avoiding Vacation Procrastination

My husband and I recently returned from our first extended vacation in 11 years.  Embarrassing to admit because if you’ve been to one of my workshops, you know how strongly I advocate for and teach the importance of making time for regular mini  and extended vacation breaks.  I remind all clients and seminar audiences that [...]

Law Office Mental Health Policies for Well Known & Our "Other" Addictions

Alcoholism, substance abuse and depression; these three afflictions usually receive the most attention at CLE programs and in legal publications. This makes sense in light of the continuing (and alarming) rise in the numbers of attorneys suffering with these impairments. What we don’t hear as much about, statistically or otherwise, are the more subtle impairments [...]

Reducing Our Personality "Fireworks" In & Out of the Office!

Just posted this “RT” on Twitter: RT@TulsaBankruptcy Wishing you a happy & safe 4th of July. How about some Recession Fireworks? http://tinyurl.com/lbzqqo Great cartoon although the painful truth behind it is sad.  I wish you and yours a 4th of July weekend that’s full of fun, good times with family and friends and a safe [...]