Mastering Your Law Practice: Law Practice Management, Law Firm Marketing, Rainmaking, Attorney Lifestyle

I'm Attorney Thom Goolsby and welcome to mastering law. The podcast for attorneys to help you master the business of practicing law. Transformation: Understand & commit to set up a realistic planning system. Here's where we take the crazy turn it's off the chart different from everything else you've heard: we're going to apply Parkinson's law. Scott Brown: Losers have goals, winners have systems 1. Why do we calendar? A. To get things done B. Prioritize tasks C. Set up an initial system What do we calendar? Daily work & appointments (give staff some freedom to schedule business and personal appointments with you) Marketing tasks and practice management Self-development vacations Brainstorming Note: If you continue to not do a task, take it off your list. Just realize what you are giving up. Now to the wrinkle: Parkinson's law is the adage that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. What will calendaring do for us? Help us focus on strategic view Help us determine what we