Work/Life balance = Time Management
- Goals:
- 6-hour work-day, on average;
- 1 hour at end of each work day to catch up with clients;
- Systemize email follow-up through mail chimp, especially in those matters that do not ripen over months; email stating nothing has changed;
- No more that 5 hours worked in any weekend period; weekends with hours in excess of 5 hours can be offset by weekends with no work at all
Principals:
- Think Upstream (book by Dan Heath)
- Avoid normalizing problems: don’t be like many lawyers who go unpaid for many of the legal services that they provide
- If I don’t like doing a task, Identify if it is necessary to the practice of law, to my client, or to my practice; if it can be stopped: stop doing it; if it cannot be avoided, find a way to delegate it.
- Look for gaps in the legal market that I can fill with passion
- Absolute Responsibility:
- If there is a problem, it is my responsibility to solve it
- Ying/Yang
- A healthy life is all about balance
- Life + the practice of law and not Life = the practice of law
- A healthy life is all about balance
Billing:
- Avoid hourly billing like a plague
Money:
- Set a reasonable ceiling for net profits
- Guard against expense creep
- Avoid being dependent on that next client
Extracurriculars:
- School of Man
- Exercise
- Podcasting
- Dungeon’s and Dragons
- Video Games
- Social Life