Time Management for the Professional Procrastinator

When I last posted to this blog back in March as I got busier and busier with the then- rapidly-approaching ABA TECHSHOW® 2009, I never dreamed that all of April, May and June, and most of July, would fly by before I’d get around to writing another post, so procrastination seems as fitting a topic [...]

You Don’t Always Have to Eat Your Peas!

Most successful people have developed the habit of putting work before play. After all, most of us of a certain age were taught that we had to eat all our dinner first if we wanted any dessert. (Does anyone even sit down to dinner anymore?)
The ability to delay gratification is one of the hallmarks [...]

Lawyer’s Guide to Outlook 2007 Knocks One Out of the Park!

I love baseball, and Ben Schorr’s new book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Outlook 2007, is so great it just naturally brings thoughts of home runs to mind. If you have already upgraded to Office 2007, and if you are feeling overwhelmed by both the new user interface in Outlook, not to mention the volume of [...]

Weekend Audio: On Wasting Time and Email

I mentioned to a friend recently that blogging is harder than I thought it would be because I don’t have as much time to read as I would like. Somehow, seeing the thoughts of other people expressed in writing, whether it’s reading books, magazines, articles on the Internet or other people’s blog posts, helps [...]