Disrupting the Disruptor: 7 Tips for Managing Chaos at Work or at Home

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?...

Revealing What Dwells Within

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...

The Lawyer’s Compass: Equanimity – Tips on Finding This Often Elusive State

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...

The Lawyer’s Compass: Loyalty – Ignore Its Power At Your Peril

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,...

The Lies You Tell: Unconscious Scripts and How They Keep You From the Truth of Who Are

by Jim Dwyer | Dec 1, 2016 | Learning to Listen, Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life

Have you ever been lied to? I have. It makes me angry and sad. Lies destabilize what they touch and can wreak havoc in a relationship. I discovered that I was being lied to earlier this year. In fact, it had been going on for so long it was hard to believe I hadn’t...

The Simple Way to Find your Life’s Calling, One Micro-passion at a Time

by Jim Dwyer | Nov 3, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life

When I decided to go to law school it wasn’t because I had a burning desire to be a lawyer, right wrongs, or fight for the little guy. I’d graduated from college with a history degree, then moved to San Diego to try and figure life out at the ripe old age of 24. After...