This week marks the beginning of the University year for many Law Students nationwide. Given the recent comments from our Prime Minister himself encouraging students NOT to embark upon the study of law unless they want to be ‘real lawyers’, I would expect there is an extra level of trepidation for those of you lining […]
Today, as I was working my way through a long complicated property settlement analysis an email appeared in my inbox with the title ‘Blog Time’. Now usually I advocate for doing only one thing at a time and not allowing those email notifications to distract you from the task at hand, but today I broke […]
Around 3 years ago now I made the decision that it was time to do away with time based billing systems in my law firm. Fast forward 3 years and we have made the shift, but not without many learnings along the way. The professions of Law and Accounting are amongst the slowest of the […]
4 years ago I found myself struggling. The year 2013 was full of professional ups and downs. It was my daughter’s second year of life and I was still working out what being a mum was all about, while regularly suffering from a severe lack of sleep. My office had been plagued with challenges and […]
On Monday the 20th of March, we will celebrate the United Nations International Day of Happiness– a day where we are reminded that happiness is a fundamental human goal. We often talk of our desire to just be ‘happy’ and some suggest that our eternal pursuit of happiness is in fact what leads us to […]
These past few years I have spent many hours reading, learning and researching happiness. At first this was to better understand my own wellbeing but later all that work led to me writing the book ‘Happy Lawyer Happy Life’. Unhappiness in my profession is rife. The incidence of mental health problems within the legal profession is […]
It was 1997 when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. That was almost 20 years ago now. Just saying that makes me realise that was a really long time ago! In 1997 I was living in sunny Brisbane, in a share house in Annerley and studying to be an Interior Designer. Not a […]
When I look back on the year that has been 2015 I will remember it for my daily pursuit of ‘happiness’. It’s not that I spent the years prior to 2015 being unhappy- it is just that this year I read, learned, listened and practiced all sorts of things to consciously understand just what being […]
Over the past few weeks it seems everywhere I go I am hearing the same words spoken. At conferences, with friends and this week with my clients I have both heard and uttered these words- “You have to fit your own mask first”. The idea is a good one- that to look after those […]
This past week I have been enjoying a long awaited family holiday. Oliver, London and I have made our way (along with Ollie’s mum) to Queenstown, New Zealand. It has been beautiful. We have been skiing the slopes, sitting in front of log fires, enjoying lovely dinners out and all that fun holiday stuff. But […]
