by Jim Dwyer | Mar 2, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
After reading this sentence, close your eyes and take three long deep breaths. As you continue to read, keep taking slow and steady breaths, keeping focused on the rising and falling of your chest. Imagine what deep success feels like, the kind that comes from the...
by Jim Dwyer | Feb 18, 2016 | Great Strides and Small Steps, Redefining a Successful Lawyer, The Lawyer's Compass
I was recently having dinner with a group of friends and family, I asked them if they had a positive or negative association with the phrase “The devil is in the details”. Three said negative and two saw it neutrally. I’ve been bedeviled by this...
by Jim Dwyer | Feb 3, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, Redefining a Successful Lawyer, The Lawyer's Compass
Like my grandpa Jim, most of us have a compass in our pocket – at least if that’s where we carry our smartphone. Compass apps are so easy to use. We don’t have to be standing still or making sure we are holding it level. We open the app … and...
by Jim Dwyer | Jan 8, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Office Practice is Life Practice, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
What I love most about being in Hawaii in November is that I get to escape the cold and wet of Portland, Oregon. Along with the warm water, air and soft sand that I love so much about Hawaii, I’m also seemingly surrounded by compasses. Being in a state that is a...
