by Jim Dwyer | Mar 30, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life
A disruption is a radical change in a process that causes something to not work in the normal way. It can be a business model, technology, a country or a person. No one or thing is immune from it. It sucks to be disrupted. When was the last time it happened to you?...
by Jim Dwyer | Mar 9, 2017 | The Lawyer's Compass
It all started a week before Thanksgiving of 2015. Jan’s mom, who’d been battling Parkinson’s for over 30 years was hospitalized. She was there for a week. Before being discharged she said to Jan, “You have to let me go.” She made the decision to not use a...
by Jim Dwyer | Feb 9, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Power of Relationships
I’m interested in affecting deeper changes within myself. Which is what life is about. Here are two commandments I’ve learned to create a more meaningful life: 1. Thou Shalt Make It Physical. Five years ago I participated in my first White Stone Ceremony at the...
by Jim Dwyer | Jan 12, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
When someone is talking angrily to me, I don’t really hear what’s being said as I’m focused on how they’re saying it. Any of us can get caught up in “an emotion spin cycle.” What could’ve been a frustration or a simple misunderstanding takes on a disproportionate...
by Jim Dwyer | Dec 15, 2016 | Fiduciary Duties, Living Our Best Life, Power of Relationships
And all shall abide by these three fiduciary duties: full and frank disclosure, duty of care and loyalty; but the greatest of these is loyalty. While it doesn’t have the ring of one of the most often quoted lines in the bible: “And now abides faith, hope, love,...
