The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work: Taking the Stress Out of SuccessLaw Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, 1999 - 235 pages Designed to help lawyers achieve personal and professional satisfaction in their careers, this guide offers seasoned wisdom for navigating a stress-free path through a career in law. Through practical and explorative exercises, lawyers learn how to identify habitual patterns, clearly evaluate past and current jobs, and discover self-empowerment, and how to apply this information to making healthy decisions. The exercises take personal facts from all aspects of a lawyer's complex life and arrange the information into simple, useful advice for making productive career choices. The book is peppered with informative and engaging anecdotes, and firsthand burnout experiences-offering remedies and direction for lawyers whose careers and lives are out of balance. |
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... focus . Section One traces history from childhood through current work . That process shows us life patterns without judging them . We take from our own pattern what we want . There isn't a right or wrong response to the information the ...
... focus . Section One traces history from childhood through current work . That process shows us life patterns without judging them . We take from our own pattern what we want . There isn't a right or wrong response to the information the ...
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... focus on the matter requiring immediate attention . But the difference between awareness and focus is more than hairsplitting . Awareness is like a lightbulb . The illumination it sheds spreads uniformly in all directions from a single ...
... focus on the matter requiring immediate attention . But the difference between awareness and focus is more than hairsplitting . Awareness is like a lightbulb . The illumination it sheds spreads uniformly in all directions from a single ...
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... focus of this book has been on supporting personal , not insti- tutional , change . Admittedly , we could more rapidly alter the landscape of how law is practiced if we could shift the attitudes where we work . This would allow us to ...
... focus of this book has been on supporting personal , not insti- tutional , change . Admittedly , we could more rapidly alter the landscape of how law is practiced if we could shift the attitudes where we work . This would allow us to ...
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Taking StockThe Path to the Law | 11 |
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