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It’s Almost Christmas! Last-Minute Gifts for Lawyers & Other Awesome People In Your Life
December 22, 2017 Anne Brafford 4791 0 0

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.
December 21, 2017 Anne Brafford 11140 0 0

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
December 21, 2017 Anne Brafford 8837 0 1

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
Five Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way # 3—The “Magic Pill” of Positive Relationships
May 30, 2015 Anne Brafford 6540 0 0

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
May 18, 2015 Anne Brafford 3594 0 0

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
Five Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way #2—Finding Your Mojo at Work
January 13, 2015 Anne Brafford 3534 0 0

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...

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Five Ways to Enhance Your Happiness: Way # 1—Improve Your Positivity Ratio
September 2, 2014 Anne Brafford 3989 0 0

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...

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Time to Pitch the Picasso: How Your Office Art Choice Might Affect Your Well-Being
August 19, 2014 Anne Brafford 2491 0 0

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...

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Lawyers, Are You as Optimistic and Resilient as you Need to Be?
August 11, 2014 Anne Brafford 3879 0 0

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...

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Not SHOCKED That Lawyers Didn’t Make Forbes’ List of Most Meaningful Jobs? Maybe We Should Be.
August 7, 2014 Anne Brafford 5849 0 0

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...

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Outweigh the Bad with Extra Good at Work
August 4, 2014 Anne Brafford 2759 0 0

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...

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If You Don’t Want a Shriveled Brain and a Big Butt, You Should Read This
August 4, 2014 Anne Brafford 3186 0 0

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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