Is Your Law Practice Suffering and in Pain?
Where does it hurt?
Believe it or not, pain can be a good thing and can be used to your benefit. Pain, if acknowledged, can propel you to take action. Pain can be a great mentor and motivator for you. It can be an excellent wake-up call. It can be the driving force that propels you to have a desire to stop the bleeding in your business. Ask yourself are the pains mild, severe or life-threatening?
Many years ago, pain was the best motivator in my business. The pain got me to take notice of what was needed so I could do what was necessary.
I teach my attorney clients to stop running from their practice aches and pains and fully and deliberately experience the results of their pain. They needed to feel agitated, frustrated, angry and jolted into taking action and some risk, so they don’t have to experience the same pain again and again. As an attorney coach, I coach them not to deny, mask or mislabel the pain. Use the pain to reach for something more, something different.
Every practice experiences pain. Growing pains, revenue pains, business development pains, financial and sales pains. Most practices choose to live with the daily aches despite the energy spent to ignore it. Whatever pain is present in your law practice right now, may serve as the fuel in your pursuit to heal it. Pain is personal, and the level of tolerance is different for everyone. How much it hurts and how long you tolerate the pain is your choice.
If your law practice is suffering but you’re in denial, totally numb to it or mindlessly going through the motions, then you haven’t got much incentive to fix, heal or change the pain. Denial is costly and dangerous, and the numbing side effects are deadly to a practice. When the pain strikes, you must hit back with a dose of action and a shot of risk.
No risk, no reward. The act of admitting you’ve been in pain long enough and that it’s t
ime to take action can be scary. It’s frightening to disrupt the sameness and risk the unknown.
Pain gets your attention and moves you to take action. Use it to propel yourself out of the situation you’re in and get you to where you want to be.
Does your practice need a band-aid, a few stitches, a tourniquet or radical surgery to stop the pain?
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This 911 attorney coaching call is not a free coaching call. That would be irresponsible of me to offer you, as change doesn’t happen overnight, and certainly can’t happen on one phone call. This is purely a chance for us to get to know each other, see where you are in your business, and see if it makes sense to work together. I want to serve you deeply, and in order to do that, we need to have a frank conversation about your practice first.