Blog Posts: Law Blog

I read somewhere when you are speaking with someone you should imagine them wearing a hat that says “Make me interesting.” The point is to ask questions that allows the other person to speak because the more someone speaks during a conversation, the better they think the conversation went. This is because people like talking generally, and talking about themsel...

 Don’t be too busy or self-important to miss an opportunity. Opportunities are everywhere, but you need to take notice and, at times, treat them like they can be life altering. We all have missed important opportunities. Of course, you can learn from this happening, but looking back with regret is not positive. On the other hand, if you are presenting me with a...

In my world organization can mean many things including time management, having an organized office, or being organized in the work I am doing for cases as well as being cognizant of all case deadlines. As in all worlds, disorganization leads to disaster. It not only can make you late on your commitments, it can adversely affect your business and personal life. For...

A favorite saying of mine is “If we all were the same, the world would be a boring place.” I believe this to be true. Some people are more comfortable with people just like themselves. I do not understand that because I believe diversity breeds innovation and opportunity and makes the world more interesting. It also can mean so many different things. This come...

Is this you? To honestly answer this question requires self-awareness, which many people lack. We all know that person, the one you meet in a business or personal setting who cannot stop themselves from dominating a conversation or room. At the end of the conversation, they think it went well while you hope not to run into them again. When that type of conversatio...

Are you content with where you are in your career and, if so, why? Maybe you just want to do the same old and punch the clock. Sounds boring to me, but it could be your thing. For most of us we see there can be more. What that is depends.  But, for most, there are likely many options. It is like the books where you read a page and what page you go to next depends ...

Go to new places and put yourself in new situations with new people. Do not just stay at places or with the people with whom you are comfortable. You either get this concept or you do not. If you don’t, begin to think broader about the big world out there. No one grows by doing the same old with the same people every day. When I heard “the world begins at the ...

Networking is the base on which your business development efforts sit. Who you know matters. The broader your network and reach the better chance it will lift you up towards success. It seems obvious that you should want to be known by as many people as possible. We all have different ideas of what networking is or should be. You and I may meet at a professional e...

We all know the cliché “overnight success.” In the real world anyone who is an overnight success has put in the time to be a success.  And most people don’t even realize it. For instance, the Beatles are viewed as an overnight success. Actually, their rise to the top took approximately five years, thousands of hours of practice, and hundreds of live perform...

A lot of people sugarcoat what they say to save others’ feelings. This is good in theory, but detrimental to your business. If you cannot have honest, hard conversations with your peers and employees, what does that say about your business? Who are you training them to be (or not)? It reminds me of a quote from Zig Ziglar: “The only thing worse than training e...