It’s Almost Christmas! Last-Minute Gifts for Lawyers & Other Awesome People In Your Life
Are you still looking for Christmas gift ideas? Do you have lawyers on your list? If so, I’m here to help. I love lawyers, many of my...
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It’s A Positive Psychology Christmas! Give the Gift of Happiness Books.
The Christmas alarm clock is about to go off, and many of us still have last-minute gifts to buy. What to do? Buy BOOKS, of course! Technology has...
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It’s a Positive Psychology Christmas! Give the Gift of A Science-Backed, Well-Being-Boosting Care Package
Every October, I SWEAR that I’m going to start Christmas shopping early. And, as always, I’m in a last-minute rush to find nifty...
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Five Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way # 3—The “Magic Pill” of Positive Relationships
If you could take a free pill with no negative side-effects that has been proven to extend life, reduce perceptions of pain, strengthen the immune...
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Badass Butterfly Tactics: Boosting Lawyer Engagement with Small, Doable Acts
In my Badass Butterfly Tactics (BBT) blog for Thomson Reuter’s Legal Executive Institute, I recommend small organizational changes that pack a...
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Five Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way #2—Finding Your Mojo at Work
Do you know what it’s like to be in “The Zone”? To be in a near trance-like state in which you feel strong and awesome? If so, then you know what...
Read moreFive Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way # 1—Improve Your Positivity Ratio
Waving good-bye to summer always makes me a little glum, so I thought a few post-Labor Day happiness-boosters were in order.This isn’t as easy as...
Read moreTime to Pitch the Picasso: How Your Office Art Choice Might Affect Your Well-Being
As lawyers and business professionals, we can’t escape stress and anxiety. It just comes with the territory of our jobs. But we do have control...
Read moreLawyers, Are You as Optimistic and Resilient as you Need to Be?
Your big motion was denied, the judge was a jerk, the opposing counsel is a nightmare, your client is mad, your spouse is irked that you’ve...
Read moreNot SHOCKED That Lawyers Didn’t Make Forbes’ List of Most Meaningful Jobs? Maybe We Should Be.
What’s the difference between a jellyfish and a lawyer? One’s a spineless, poisonous blob. The other is a form of sea life. What do you call...
Read moreOutweigh the Bad with Extra Good at Work
In a dry understatement of the obvious, a 2008 study found “a degree of consensus” in the research literature “that large law firms have a...
Read moreIf You Don’t Want a Shriveled Brain and a Big Butt, You Should Read This
I’m glad I got your attention. The size of your brains and butts is at stake here. If you sit most of the day, your brain may be shrinking while...
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