Posted on October 6th, 2011 by Chrissie
iCyborg lawyers - full feature article available here now. This article was first published in Managing Partner magazine on 21st September 2011 and is reproduced by kind permission (www.mpmagazine.com).
My tribute to Steve Jobs (1955-2011)…
Albeit the world is full of great visionaries and innovators, only a special handful of human beings through time truly touch the people of the world and become extraordinary change masters. Steve Jobs is a legend and one of such masters. His legacy, genius and brilliance will live on as we move toward singularity…
Steve Jobs: the greatest innovator of my generation, an extraordinary change master and a human being with exceptional IQ and unrivalled EQ. You will be sorely missed not only by the techy world but by the business world and the legal world too…
The iCyborg Lawyer is Near?
iCyborg lawyers: the future of artificial intelligence (for law firms, lawyers and entrepreneurs) - first published 21st September 2011, Managing Partner magazine, October 2011, Volume 14 Issue 2. Full feature article here.
Artificial intelligence (AI); nanotechnology; genetics; social networking; web 2.0 > 10.0; global economic effects; emerging economies; population time-bomb; employment time-bomb; working patterns and lifestyles; consumer sovereignty. Just a few things to consider for those of you who may wish to join me in playing ‘join the dots’. When you do, my prediction that the iCyborg lawyer is near may not seem so ridiculous…
Universal truth?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lawyer worth his salt must be worthy of employment for his lifetime. Do you reckon? I put it to you that no matter how fabulous a lawyer you are intellectually, you will meet your match and be superseded by iCyborg lawyer within the next two to three decades. Huh? Guffaw. Groan. Harumph. No doubt just a few reactions to my statement.
Well, I’ve recently returned to England after delivering a couple of keynote sessions at the Australian Legal Practice Management Association in Melbourne, Australia. As the theme of the conference was ‘Adapt, Innovate, Inspire’, I duly spent the final 30 minutes of the closing session looking at the present and future of the legal profession, industry and role of the lawyer. My intention was to encourage the delegates to think, feel and act on what I shared, hoping they would leave the event feeling inspired, eager to adapt, embrace more technology and to innovate by re-inventing themselves, their teams and their businesses in preparation for the bold new legal world.
Legal beagle booties…
However, in sharing my vision and prediction from present day up to the year 2045 I fear a number of the delegates may have departed the conference quaking in their legal beagle booties…
Why? Well, err-hum. I posed the question “is the iCyborg lawyer near?” and then proceeded to suggest that due to the ingenuity of man – supported with evidence – the answer is indeed a resounding ‘yes’.
I’ve written a full feature on this subject in Managing Partner magazine; available here now as featured on the cover of the October issue, first published 21st September 2011. Highlights of what I share in the article include my belief that we’re already transitioning toward ‘two faces of the law’. Two dominant umbrella business models have come to the fore in relation to what, where, why, when and how we serve our clients: Face to Face and Interface. Nonetheless, ‘WHO’, will be doing the serving in the future may well be rather different due to ‘machine systems’ coming into ‘their’ own. In the feature I talk about the humanization of lawyers, the impact of nanobots and brain computer interfaces and suggest that come 2045 iLawyers will transcend biology.
Utopia or road to hell?
Actually, by this time, in a utopian world (if we so choose it to be and manage not to destroy the planet in the meantime) I predict there will no longer be a need for us ‘purely human’ lawyers. Also, from now until 2045 it will be interesting to see how powerful pulsed magnetic fields which inhibit the ability to lie will impact our legal world. Time will tell whether this will be a godsend or the road to hell. Perhaps Susskind’s suggestion in his provocative book entitled ‘The End of Lawyers?’ may actually come to pass.
Undoubtedly, with Steve Jobs passing we have lost one of the world’s greatest technological innovators of our time. When we look back over the past 35 years and marvel at the impact Steve Jobs has had on advancing technology and introducing artificial intelligence positively into our world perhaps as we look ahead to the next 35 years the iCyborg lawyer may be closer than we dare imagine?
Fact or fiction, virtual reality or reality, one thing is for sure, as we continue to join the dots our world (and its technology and artificial intelligence) will inevitably evolve at an accelerating speed for “ours is the species that inherently seeks to extend its physical and mental reach beyond current limitations” (Ray Kurzweil).
Thank-you Steve Jobs, for dedicating your life to technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, for being brave enough to think differently, bold enough to feel and believe you could change the world, and extraordinary talented and spiritually gifted to actually do it.
Chrissie Lightfoot
The Entrepreneur Lawyer, CEO EntrepreneurLawyer Limited.
Author of The Naked Lawyer: RIP to XXX – How To Market, Brand & Sell YOU!
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Posted on January 24th, 2011 by Chrissie
Hi there!
Do you realise it’s Australia Day on 26th January?
What’s the significance of this, you may well be wondering? Well, I was just contemplating the topsy-turvy time most of us have been enduring over the past 24 months whilst at the same time sympathising with my friends from ‘the land down-under’ losing the Ashes; enough on that subject, too many unsympathetic jokes still doing the rounds. Have a heart Poms 
The fact that it’s Australia Day got me thinking about a theme… and about you…
Do you feel as though your world has been turned upside down during the past couple of years? Perhaps you feel as though you can do your job standing on your head and need something ‘more’, but you’re not sure what? Or, maybe, in fact, you’re looking for a ‘better way’ in business and/or life because things just aint the way they used to be, or you thought they were going to be? If you’re anything like me, then thoughts along these lines may have popped into your head at some point.
So, if the answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above then permit me to share something with you which just may interest you and help you…
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In celebration of Australia Day (26th January) The Naked Lawyer (the prancing, dancing, naked lawyer in law law land in the eBook) has decided that the usual dancing price for The Naked Lawyer: RIP to XXX – How to Market, Brand and Sell YOU! eBook (ALL 12 VOLUMES) needs to take a running flip….
For a limited time-frame the eBook will NOT be £96…
Yup. You guessed it. She’s treating you to the special price of £69 (inc VAT) for The Naked Lawyer eBook from 13.00 (GMT) on 25th January 2011 until midnight (GMT) 31st January 2011.
Btw – it means the eBook is actually ONLY £57.50 if you’re buying from outside the EU or if you purchase the eBook through your business (EU buyer) as you can reclaim the VAT; subject to your company being VAT registered of course. Neat, eh?
Why not make the positive choice? Take control. And change your life and career (present and future) for the better. Be bold. Be courageous. Make your first step toward turning your world the right way up and fox trotting off in the direction you always wanted to take it…
The Naked Lawyer can help you. I have every confidence. She helped me… and many others. (The Naked Lawyer Interview)
Go on now, give her a whirl whilst she’s prepared to treat you. I guarantee she will positively make your toes curl!
Warmest as ever
Chrissie Lightfoot
The Entrepreneur Lawyer
(of the naked kind)
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Posted on December 31st, 2010 by Chrissie
Hiya…
Just thought I’d share a quickie post with you to tie up 2010.
I’ve been in Spain over the festive season catching up with R&R; that’s Rest & Recuperation btw, just in case you thought it was something or someone else
Inevitably some of my time has been spent slobbing in front of the television; unusual for me but heck, variety is the spice of life eh?
I don’t know about you but have you noticed how many darn adverts there are on the TV shouting about ‘BEAT THE VAT INCREASE’? Hence, it’s kind of the sellers’ way of saying ”buy our stuff now before we pass on the VAT increase to you post 4th January by raising the final cost of our goods and/or services”!
It occurred to me that for most of us we need to make every penny count when we’re considering what we spend our hard earned spondulicks on, particularly as we’ve just had a really tough couple of ‘finance stretching’ years and it’s likely to continue going forward in 2011. It got me thinking about you…
So, here’s my 3rd and final gift from The Naked Lawyer this festive season and for 2010…
Heads up all ye readers who have kindly been in touch and expressed your interest and desire to buy The Naked Lawyer eBook over the festive season. Here’s my honest and open-hearted tip…
HOLD OFF BUYING The Naked Lawyer eBook UNTIL AT LEAST 4th January. Use your 2011 budget!
Why?
Because the rise in VAT means The Naked Lawyer eBook may well be cheaper for you. You’re maybe thinking, ‘huh’?
Permit me to briefly explain. As you know there is VAT on eBooks; albeit print books are zero rated. At present The Naked Lawyer RIP to XXX is £96.00 for the paperback and £96.00 including VAT for the RIP to XXX eBook version; ergo the eBook is cheaper than the paperback if you can reclaim the VAT (because you’ve bought it through your business / firm / company perhaps) or if you are a buyer from outside the EU.
In essence, the net price for The Naked Lawyer RIP to XXX eBook at present is only £81.70. You only pay the VAT (present rate@ 17.5% = £14.30) if you are a buyer from the EU (whether as an individual consumer or corporate client); hence the gross price is £96.00 for EU buyers.
As you know, as of 4th January 2011 in England the VAT rate increases to 20%. Meaning, the net price for The Naked Lawyer RIP to XXX will reduce to £80.00 for ALL buyers. Remember, you only pay the VAT (which will be @20% = £16.00 on 4th January) if you are a buyer from the EU; gross price will therefore remain £96.00 for EU buyers.
Now, if you purchase The Naked Lawyer RIP to XXX eBook through your company then you do of course reclaim the VAT you’ve paid. Albeit your firm will have paid out £96.00 for each eBook it will reclaim £16.00 every time meaning the cost of the RIP to XXX eBook is actually only £80.00. The saving is £1.70 by buying on 4th January rather than pre 4th January. It will soon tot up where multiple purchases are involved. Some of you, I know, have expressed an interest to purchase in excess of 20 copies for your ambitious lawyers and leaders of tomorrow within your firm / practice / company, (to benefit from the CPD hours also) therefore I respectfully leave you to work out the total sum saving, the benefit to your cash-flow and your overall CPD budget.
Albeit the gross price of The Naked Lawyer RIP to XXX eBook will not change, all in all, it will be cheaper for you to wait to buy the eBook if:
- you are not subject to VAT because you’re buying from outside the EU – it will be £80.00 as of 4th January (presently £81.70); or
- you are subject to VAT because you are a buyer from within the EU and you can therefore reclaim the VAT (which will be £16.00 on 4th January 2011 rising from £14.30 pre 4th January 2011) if your company / firm is prepared to buy it on your behalf.
In true Meerkat advert style… Simples.
It goes without saying that 2011 is going to be yet another tough year on the purse-strings and corporate coffers for most of us; whether we’re buying for business or pleasure! Accordingly, I reckon when every penny counts, let’s make it count…
For most things in life, timing (and time) is everything…
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” (Carl Sandburg).
I’m urging you NOT to spend on The Naked Lawyer eBook as an individual or as a decision-maker within your firm until January 4th 2011 onwards, at which point ‘time’ (and the VAT man!) will be on your side.
Hear hear! Ring in 2011 by keeping more jingle in your purse.
It’s my pleasure that I can gift you this saving; genuinely, I don’t mind standing the VAT for you (as obviously the actual monies that I receive from each sale of The Naked Lawyer eBook will reduce as of 4th January) for I know that YOU will benefit greatly from the content within The Naked Lawyer when you buy it, read it and action it – it’s a message and blueprint that will both touch and benefit you, those whom you care about and your firm, a great deal - AND you will actually receive the benefit from a TAX increase…
It’s not often we can say that now, can we?
Warmest as ever
Chrissie Lightfoot
The Entrepreneur Lawyer
(of the naked kind)
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Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Chrissie
Is your hard work going to benefit you professionally and privately?
Guest blog post by Andrew Neligan, Informed Choice Ltd.
What will make you happy and fulfilled? Getting your training contract or pupillage? Making partner? Being head of Chambers? Sitting as a judge? Perhaps, leaving the profession either by retiring (early?) or seeking a new path? Or, is your career simply a route to the attainment of personal goals and ambitions that will offer true fulfilment?
In Chrissie Lightfoot’s must read autobiographical rainmaking/client relationship manual for anyone in the legal profession she candidly explains how through her career, initially outside the law and then within it, she has made conscious choices that ensure that she would be, in Jack Welch’s words, “master of her own destiny”.
It was this philosophy that led her to establish EntrepreneurLawyer and decide to use her experiences to help those within the legal profession achieve their personal goals and ambitions by making themselves more valuable to their clients and firms. (“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” Jim Rohn). And, by being more valuable you acquire the earnings to enable you to achieve in life whatever matters most to you.
Understanding what it is that you want, what it is that will make you more fulfilled; being self actualised in terms of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, will put you in the right direction to achieving your goals. It may be that your real motivation is to progress through the legal profession but for the majority of us success in our careers is the conduit to achieving our personal goals. Such goals are many and wide ranging; from the financial security for our family to having the financial freedom to allow us to work when and where we want. Or, it may be either from the acquisition of material possessions to giving (time and money) to the world’s poor and vulnerable.
Chrissie’s book will provide you with the blue print and the skills to make yourself more valuable to your clients but how do you ensure that, when you are harvesting the fruits of your labour, you will have the financial freedom to achieve your personal financial goals? This is where a comprehensive Financial Plan fits in.
Financial Planning is simply having a strategy that will allow you to achieve your financial goals and ambitions. It:
- Ensures financial security for you and your family.
- Allows you to live the life you wish (realistically; we’re not alchemists).
- Ensures you never run out of money.
- Helps you make more astute financial decisions.
Financial Planning achieves this by:
- Helping you to define your goals and when they must be achieved by (SMART objectives).
- Comparing your income to your expenditure and your assets to your liabilities to determine whether your goals are achievable if you continue what you are doing.
- Providing steps that can be taken to make your goals achievable if they are not going to be, based on your current financial position. This may be a target income to achieve each year, better use of your savings and investments or adjustments that need to be made to your annual expenditure.
- Answering the ‘what if?’ questions you may have: ‘What if I lose my job?’ ‘What if I can’t work due to sickness or disability?’, ‘What if I die? Will my family be OK?’, ‘What if I retire early? Will I run out of money?’, ‘What if my children go to private school? Will I be able to afford it each year?’
Financial Planning therefore should be the first step everyone should take when making financial decisions.
Too many people have no plan for their money and make ad-hoc financial decisions without understanding the impact of their decisions on their future lifestyle. For example, if you have established a pension plan or set up an ISA do you know whether the amount you are contributing is enough? Is the risk you are taking in your portfolios too much or too little? Are you paying more in charges than is necessary? Is inflation the biggest threat to you living the life you wish?
If you have savings and investments you should regularly review them to make sure they are consistent with your personal goals so that you can achieve your hopes and avoid your fears. If you have no plan for your money or haven’t reviewed it regularly you should speak to a Financial Planning expert before you make costly mistakes.
Andrew Neligan is a Chartered & Certified Financial Planner who helps legal professionals achieve their financial goals by establishing bespoke Financial Planning strategies. Contact him today to understand how Financial Planning can help you by clicking here.
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Posted on December 23rd, 2010 by Chrissie
Hi there !
In Volume 7 of The Naked Lawyer I talk about nurturing fuzz to get more buzz. Simply put, it’s all about relationships… and friendship. I don’t know about you but I feel truly blessed due to all of the wonderful people who have come into my life, particularly this year – YOU.
As I reflect back on 2010 I can only smile when I think about all of you… the new people in my life who have brought me much happiness… as well as challenges. But you know I love it!
My 2nd gift to you this festive season is an excerpt from The Naked Lawyer: RIP to XXX which just may touch you in a special way. It goes something like this…
“I’d like to leave you with something to think about until we dance again…
Every person with whom I come into contact with, in either a professional or personal capacity, I ask of myself the following.
‘Have you come into my life for a reason, a season or a lifetime’?
Why?
I’m curious. I’m hungry to know. I desire to continually learn…
And I enjoy building relationships, for however short or long they may last.
I engage in relationships, not knowing the answer to the above question, but I go about developing the relationship trying to figure out whether it is for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When I do figure out which one it is, I know what to do for each person, and realise what they have done for me… and for that, I am grateful.
‘Are you a reason, a season, or a lifetime’ is a poem of unknown origin. Here it is:
When someone comes into your life for a REASON… it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realise is that our need has been met, our desires fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.
Then people come into your life for a SEASON. Because your turn has come to share, grow and learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.
Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
For those of you who are in my life (past and present), THANK-YOU. You can probably hear my cogs turning!”
And so, I shall now leave you to figure out your own reason, season, lifetime conundrum; or is it enigma?
One final thing. In true Naked Lawyer style, I wish you the most fun, outrageous and sexily serendipitous Christmas ever… with a dash of karma, of course. Enjoy!
Warmest festive wishes… with whistles and jingle bells…
Chrissie Lightfoot
The Entrepreneur Lawyer
(of the naked kind)
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Posted on August 28th, 2010 by Chrissie
‘The sun is out… the sky is blue… there’s not a cloud… to spoil the view… but it’s raining… (doodle doodle doom)… raining in my heart.’
You may recognise the lyrics from a song. I’m referencing it in relation to how all you frustrated lawyers out there may be feeling right now. Whether you’re frustrated as hell about trying to get into the profession, or whether you’re in it and desperately depressed and you want to get the hell out… but feel stuck… this article’s for you. For some of you, it may feel like a tornado is whipping around inside that legal beagle heart of yours.
I’ve just read in the Sunday Times (business section) last weekend that we’re in for a double dip as far as the economy and recession is concerned. And, the double-dip pessimist mongers say that ‘looking forward the wider economic picture is not so bright’.
I’ve also been chatting and meeting with tomorrow’s lawyers and partners in law firms over the past couple of months and law student, associate, senior associate and barrister clients. It’s partly why I’ve been a wee bit quiet on the blog post scene of late – my apologies; some of you may of course be thinking ‘thank God’ – my ‘anonymous’ commentator fan club in particular.
Bottom line… doom and gloom. The feeling is that there will be no boom for many years to come.
I’ve probably made you feel like jumping off the proverbial crumbling ivory tower roof (or equivalent). Jeronimoooooooooo!
But hey, don’t jump. Ever the eternal optimist I reckon there’s still hope. We just have to find the strength and courage to persevere.
For a start, we shouldn’t believe everything we read or hear. So, you can choose to stop reading this article right now if you’re thinking I’m talking a load of blond bimbo utter tosh (or about to).
I believe there is hope because we have choice. We have options.
For example, if you can’t get through the ‘no training contract here for you’ brick wall, are struggling to duck around it by applying for a paralegal and/or legal executive position and having no success there either because law firms are hoarding any cash they have and are reluctant to take on more staff as the global economy faces continued uncertainty, then here’s an idea: go and do something else with your life. For now, at least. While the economy and legal world is struggling and desperately trying to find its feet again and get itself on an even keel.
Reality check – there’s an obvious over supply of law students, an obvious under supply of training contracts available (and/or paralegal positions available) and a pool of highly qualified and skilled ‘give us a job’ lawyers already in the market who were ‘let go’ in 2008/9/10, ever hopeful of reclaiming a rowing position on the good ship legal enterprise.
Taking another path may well mean less risk of racking up debt. After all, there is no guarantee you will make it as a lawyer and have a legal career at the end of it; some things may well be beyond your control. The saving grace is that there’s always the chance you can come to the law later in life (as many lawyers have, successfully).
You may well find (like most people) that you will have more than one career during your working life. There’s a whole range of exciting career paths for an intelligent, hard-working, ambitious young person such as you. Remember, you are one of the top 5% in the world (as an educated budding professional). Even in a recession there are industries and niches doing rather well. Go seek and ye shall find… because it just may turn out that the dream you once believed as being the holy grail might actually turn out to be a paper cup. If you don’t believe me then go and talk to all those frustrated lawyers who remain in the industry and all those who have since left (out of choice).
Whether you’re a paralegal, legal executive, assistant solicitor, associate solicitor, a senior associate, attorney, lawyer, partner or barrister you may well have already reached the point, mindset and realisation which Jim Rohn speaks of:
‘Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.’
Being unhappy in your role/job/career is akin to being unhappy in your marriage. When you’ve reached the point that there’s more ‘bad’ than ‘good’ happening then you have to do something about it (for everyone’s sake).
So, if you want out now because in your case the holy grail you may have once searched for and found has actually turned into a paper cup, then how about these ideas:
1) Become a virtual lawyer – if you’ve got the network, contacts, collaborative relationships, wherewithal, personal marketing skills, personal sales skills… and guts, then go do it; or
2) Be a portfolio worker (be a lawyer and something else at the same time), for example, Tim Kevan: barrister (non-practising at present), the Guardian law blogger, writer, author of Law and Disorder; Marci Alboher: lawyer, journalist, author and writing coach; Denise Nurse: lawyer and weather presenter (Sky News); Shireen Smith: lawyer, marketing & website business owner (sources: Director magazine October 2009 and NatWest Sense magazine 2009). It might continue to rain in your heart as far as your lawyering role is concerned but the sunny joy the other roles bestow might actually be worth the juggling act; or
3) Go start a business – hook up with an entrepreneur who will complement your skills and needs your connections, experience and level head. Together you could be a dynamic duo – the Batman & Robin of the new legal and business dynamic (although I suspect there could be a battle as to who drives the bat-mobile).
4) There are plenty of entrepreneurs desperate to have esteemed professionals on board, who, dare I say it, already have finance lined up – their own or somebody else’s – but need someone of your calibre and ability to add value to the team. I have also read and hear of late that there are also plenty of cash rich entrepreneurs (business angels) who would rather put their money behind a sound new business venture than invest it elsewhere in the present economic climate, as there’s a chance that the yield will provide a much better ROI than sticking it in a bank or dabbling in the plum duck stock markets.
In my experience (as both a lawyer and an entrepreneur) some entrepreneurs have got all the ideas and whizzy gig oomph but no clue as to how to turn it into a viable business and make it work. They need you!
It’s worth remembering that great companies were born out of previous recessions – such as LexisNexis, Microsoft and Dell. And many lawyers whom left the profession have made a great success of their new ventures (and careers).
Take a look at Philip Vecht. He’s made an absolute fortune hanging advertisements in toilets.
Reported as ‘the lawyer who cleaned up with washroom adverts’ in the Sunday Times in January this year, Vecht began his career as a commercial lawyer at Nabarros. After two years he got out of the profession and co-founded Admedia. In Vecht’s own words ‘it was terrifying’. Surprisingly he wasn’t referring to making the leap of faith into his new venture… it was in reference to the toils and challenges of making the business work and if he failed he ‘thought (he) would have to go back to being a lawyer’. Turnover for 2010 is expected to be £7.5m.
I believe the world could probably do with less lawyers lawyering and more lawyers working in and on a business. You never know, this way ahead might actually just help the world get out of this long tail recession. There’s already a plethora of lawyers in the world and a technological, digital, consumer sovereignty trend that will inevitably see the need, want and/or desire for even less.
Problems on the job (or search for a legal job) could lead you to begin a search for something better. But it may well not be the time for impulsive action. Only you will know what’s right for you…where and when.
When all is said and done, if it’s raining in your heart then you could do something about it. You have a choice. You could be master of your own mutiny.
Of course, you will have to conduct a 360 degree personal talent, strengths, skills, knowledge, experience, fiscal, confidence and guts reality check. And an honest one at that. You’d be a fool not to. After all, if you’re going to walk the plank and jump into a stormy sea then you’d better have all the bits ‘n’ bobs in the life raft to ensure your survival. Otherwise, you just might drown!
Do you have a plan B, C or D? I ask because I’ve always lived my life as such that I hope for the best but plan for the worst. ‘It pays to plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark’ (anon).
One final thought. There may well be a market and a viable business model in the concept of ‘Frustrated Lawyers R Us.’
I wonder who of you reading this article will actually act on this idea.
If you do, please do let me know. I’d be delighted to hear about and witness your success first hand. In fact, I’d be honoured to swash-buckle alongside you in your personal mutiny
Tally-ho!
Chrissie Lightfoot
The Entrepreneur Lawyer
(of the naked kind)
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