by Jim Dwyer | Jan 20, 2014 | Living Our Best Life
Some days I feel more like a firefighter than an attorney. The phone rings off the hook. There is a constant barrage of emails. Letters to read and write. A stack of files that have to be reviewed. My day is filled with fires that must be put out. A while ago Jan, my...
by Jim Dwyer | Jan 6, 2014 | Power of Relationships
It was in a social studies class my junior year in high school that I worked out a mathematical formula about marriage. If 1 + 1 does not equal 1 then divide. At the ripe old age of 16 it was pretty clear to me, if two people cannot function as one then it’s...
by Jim Dwyer | Dec 18, 2013 | Practicing Law and Life, Repurposing Legal Terms
Recently I met with a client and his wife. I had been putting off the meeting for a week because I didn’t like what I was going to have to tell him. A few minutes before they arrived I was reviewing his file hoping to find something that I had overlooked- that I...
by Jim Dwyer | Dec 2, 2013 | Living Our Best Life, Redefining a Successful Lawyer
What are the difference between surviving and thriving? Before you read the rest of this post, think for a few minutes on what are the difference between the two for you. Our lives are so multifaceted that it is a mistake to conclude that life is either one or the...
by Jim Dwyer | Nov 19, 2013 | Living Our Best Life
I was looking at an amazing book called Far Out, A Space Time Chronicle. It’s a large coffee table book full of phenomenal photos of deep space taken by the Hubble Telescope. We could see the the same images as the Hubble Telescope if our iris was three feet wide....
