When I first read about Getting Things Done and how it may be the lawyer’s best friend, I wanted to jump in with both feet and a shovel. My office was a mess, my apartment even worse. The problem was that I didn’t know where to begin. I know we’ve talked about the steps involved…
I’m the king of getting things done tomorrow. Always have been, likely always will be. If something can be tossed off until a future time, so much the better for me. My comfort is that every lawyer struggles with procrastination now and again. It makes us inefficient, unproductive, and downright cranky. Work creeps into our…
Deadline? Sure – I’ll get to it as soon as there aren’t any more emergencies in the office. Any solo practitioner can tell you that translates, roughly speaking, into never. So how do you jump the hurdle and actually get things done? You’ve got to be specific when it comes to goal-setting. What you want,…
Established law firms provide the illusion of efficient time management. From the clock on the wall to the stressed out paralegals and attorneys, a law firm has an internal rhythm that employees intuitively learn to follow. So how does new solo setting out on his own learn how to effectively manage his time? Time management…
The biggest concern of most new bloggers? Finding the time to manage the blog properly. Rusty Budget is one of the may tools available to bloggers that can make managing diverse content and resources much easier and less time-consuming.
Judging from the amount of email I received, TIS readers were greatly impacted by the last post I wrote about Professor Randy Pausch, the virtual reality/comp-sci prof from Carnegie Mellon whose “last lecture” was uploaded to the interwebs and became an overnight mega-monster hit. I got more email about that post than any other item…