Day 1: Stay Strong (Physical Well-Being) Striving for regular activity, good diet and nutrition, enough sleep, and recovery. Limiting addictive substances and seeking help for physical health when needed. Let’s kick off Well-Being Week with a reminder of the benefits of getting back to basics when it comes to well-being. I am talking about eating well, moving often, and paying attention to … [Read more...]
Breaking the Cycle: Practical Strategies to Conquer Overthinking
I recently encountered a former colleague, younger in practice than I am, but suffering from the same malady. “Do you ever feel like you overthink everything?” she asked me as the CLE attendees around us filled their coffee cups during a mid-afternoon break. How can it be that some 15 years apart in practice, we are experiencing the same muddy emotions that are slowing down our work progress? … [Read more...]
Strategic Slowing Down
What is Strategic Slowness? As I write this, I have 18 tabs open across the top of my screen. I dart from article to article searching for relevant information while simultaneously chuckling at what I’m researching: the idea of “slowing down to speed up.” One article contains a grim prediction about our hyper-speed work life, “Fast is deadly” while another promises that “Rest is … [Read more...]