There's a nagging voice inside that keeps saying, “I am really unhappy. I need a change.” But you feel stuck. You think about quitting to do something different, but immediately, your brain comes up with 101 reasons why that is [...]
Laura Mahr is the founder of Conscious Legal Minds LLC, providing mindfulness and neuroscience-based coaching, training, and consulting for attorneys and law offices nationwide. I had the opportunity to sit down and interview her about how to use the tools of [...]
Here's what I know — life is short. Yes, I realize that's a bit of a cliché to say it but you have this one life and one opportunity to fulfill your potential. Career transitions are rarely easy and the one piece of key advice I'd like to offer is to be kind to yourself as you move through the stages.
As lawyers, we identify so much of who we are with what we do. Therefore, it’s difficult to think about a career change because it can feel as though we’re losing a part of our identity.
Here's the thing. Your clients and your firm will never tell you — you've been working too much. Why don't you take a day off? It is up to each and every one of us to know ourselves well enough to say, I need a day off.
One of the most common causes for lawyer stress is money. We trade time for money in 6-minute increments and therefore there's never enough time. Every single one of us gets 1,440 minutes per day. Time is one of our [...]
Mindfulness practice is hugely important and beneficial for learning to be comfortable with uncertainty. By definition, being mindful means being in the present moment and catching ourselves when playing the 1,001 ways in which this thing can go wrong game.
The one theme I see that comes up repeatedly with lawyers is unhappiness and discontentment. I often hear lawyers say, “I'm so unhappy at my job but I can't afford to quit. I'm working constantly so I don't have time [...]
Anxiety is part of the mental landscape for many lawyers. I used to be an anxious lawyer (hence, the title of our book, The Anxious Lawyer). At some point, the anxiety went from mild to acute. The recovery from an [...]
Last week, I was in Owensboro, KY at the Kentucky Bar Association's Annual Meeting where I gave a talk on practical ways of increasing our inner sense of well-being to about 200 lawyers. I always lead a short (0.1 hour) [...]