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Associate Attorneys: You’re Thinking About Billable Hours All Wrong
(And That’s Why They Stress You Out)
Are you an associate attorney putting in long hours but still falling short on your billables? The way you approach billable hours might be causing you to undervalue and undercount your own time.
If you find yourself spending all your time and energy working, stressing about work, or paralyzed from overwhelm about work without the billable hours to show for it, here's something that might help.
Sometimes overthinking, overwhelm, or paralysis are related to a lack of trust in our ability to handle situations in the future. Here’s what you can do about it.
Do you have trouble with: Avoiding emails because when you do they end up taking hours and being novel-length? Taking too much time psyching up for phone calls? Staying within word/page count or time limitations while writing things or preparing for presentations?
If so, you might be trying too hard to have an entire conversation all by yourself before the conversation even starts, because you don’t trust that in the future, you will be capable of handling things as they come up. For more about what I mean and how you can help yourself through it, click through to the full post!
Taking off my mask (but not that kind of mask…)
I mean like a theatrical mask, a masquerade mask, as in, when people “mask” their ADHD or other neurodiverse symptoms to fit in with neurotypical expectations. In very ADHD fashion, I didn’t even realize how confusing that title would be in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic until I got to the end of writing this post. I am not advocating taking off your actual physical, tangible masks!
A post about trying to show up as my whole authentic self in everything I do, including my professional blog…
Case study: countering negative self-talk with self-acceptance and self-compassion
So, day 2 of my daily blog post challenge came and went yesterday, and in the midst of a busy day, I didn’t find time to write a blog post. Once upon a time my inner critic, the voice of my negative self-talk, would have had a field day with that…
Blog-Post-a-Day Self Challenge
I’m challenging myself to write one blog post each day for a week. Here’s why…
Conquering my ADHD Mount Everest through the Power of Coaching
Or, How I Finally Established a Consistent Sleep Routine in my 30s.
The proudest accomplishment of my adult life is not what anyone would guess. It's not passing the bar, or graduating from law school (twice), or anything like that (and I could probably write a whole separate blog post about why I devalued those accomplishments when they happened).
No, my proudest accomplishment was when I was finally able to establish a consistent sleep schedule for the first time in my life in my thirties by using my skills to coach myself.