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I am more convinced than ever that nothing that traditional bar organizations are doing is going to move the needle on the sad stats on lawyer happiness ...
The root cause of all lawyers' problems is financial stress. Financial stress holds you back from getting the right people on the bus, running the right systems, and being able to only do work for clients you want to work with. Financial stress keeps you in the office on nights and weekends, often doing work you hate for people you don't like, and doing that work alone.
(Yes, you have permission to do only work you like doing and doing it with people you like working with.)
The money stress is not because the lawyers are bad lawyers or bad people. In fact, most lawyers are good at the lawyering part and they are good people.
The money stress is caused by the general lack of both business skills and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Thus, good lawyers who are good people get caught up and slowed down in bringing their gifts to the world. Their families, teams, clients, and communities are not well-served because you can't serve others at your top level when you are constantly worrying about money.
We can blame the law schools and the elites of the profession who are running bar organizations, but to blame anyone else for your own woes is a loser's game. It is, in itself, a restrictive, narrow, mindset that will keep you from ever seeing, let alone experiencing, a better future.
Lawyers need to be in rooms with other entrepreneurs. They need to hang with people who won't tell you that your dreams are too big or that "they" or "the system "won't allow you to achieve them. They need to be in rooms where people will be in their ear telling them that their dreams are too small.
Get in better rooms. That would be the first step.
Second step, ignore every piece of advice any general organized bar is giving about how to make your firm or your life better.
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Ep. 243 – Luck Isn't Luck
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Luck isn't always random. Ben Glass explores why “lucky” people tend to see opportunities others miss, take action instead of overthinking, and expect good things to happen. Stop asking, “What if it fails?” and start asking, “What if it works?”
Ben Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury and long-term disability insurance attorney in Fairfax, VA. Since 2005, Ben Glass and Great Legal Marketing have been helping solo and small firm lawyers make more money, get more clients and still get home in time for dinner. We call this TheGLMTribe.com
What Makes The GLM Tribe Special?
In short, we are the only organization within the "business builder for lawyers" space that is led by two practicing lawyers.
One thing we're sure you've noticed is that despite the variety of options within our space, no one else is mixing
the actual practice of law with business building in the way that we are.
There are no other organizations who understand the highs and lows of running a small law firm and are engaged in talking to real clients. That is what sets GLM apart from every other organization, and it is why we have had loyal members that have been with us for two-decades.
Meet The Luck Factor Idea
SPEAKER_01Here's more from the renegade lawyer Ben Glass. If you go and like Google, like Luck Factor, there's a book by this guy, uh Richard Um Wiseman, called The Luck Factor, where he's actually studied like how people do they think of themselves as lucky, do they perceive their lives as being fortuitous and you know good things are coming to them? He said, Yeah, it's true.
The Traits Behind “Lucky” Lives
SPEAKER_01But when he actually studied what was going on, found that they have they have developed certain traits. So they're really good at looking at opportunity, looking at creating opportunity. I'll tell you later on in one of
Spotting Opportunity Mid Conflict
SPEAKER_01my talks. Like in the middle of an argument with a federal judge, right, in a case, he said something, and all of a sudden my head was like, I mean, I was still in a case, but I was also like, this is gonna be great for marketing when I get this transcript. This is gonna be, I'm gonna like, I'm gonna run with this, baby. Right. So they they develop the habit of looking for life as a never-ending stream of opportunities.
Intuition Built By Implementing
SPEAKER_01They develop intuition, okay? So, how do you develop it better intuition? It's implementing, it's doing a whole lot of things and seeing what happens, a lot of which won't work out. But everything is teaching you. It's teaching you for the next step. And so we're really good at Bengal's law of implementing. Like my team knows, like I am famous. Like, okay, let's see, I have a day where I'm just reading. I'm sitting out by the pool, I'm just reading. By five o'clock, my expectation is all the stuff I just thought that we should be doing should actually be actually happening, right? Because I may have sent one or two emails, and it never happens as fast as I want it to, but they know that we have a tradition of pushing, pushing, pushing to get things because nothing happens until something moves, and that's how you learn from it, right?
Positive Expectations When Things Collapse
SPEAKER_01Um, we developed the habit of positive expectations when COVID first began and nobody knew what was gonna happen, and everything was shut down. I mean, you're really two ways of thinking like, okay, wow, what's what's that's gonna happen? Or holy shit, like what like when is the real heavy hammer gonna come and come come and hit me? We chose to be on the side of positivity. Sometimes people would look from the outside and say, Well, that's irrational, right? But I believe that there that that that and we'll talk about gratitude a bit um and sort of science behind that, but pausing when bad stuff happens, and just saying, Wow, where is the possibility here? What if this thing I'm thinking about you know, there's two ways you have a new idea, and you think, well, that could fail, it might cost me money. But what if it explodes?
Reframing Risk And Closing Thoughts
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