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Patchwork Parachutes
Perspectives(a publication of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession)Volume 11, Number 3Winter 2003 Susan Etheridge, J.D., founder and president of Professional Placement Services, Inc., looks back and realizes she need not have changed career…
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Reality of Impossible Dream? Effective Strategies for Achieving Career Success AND Life Balance
New Orleans Bar Association’s Briefly SpeakingFall 2003 “…the more I look at my life as the fabric of my own choices, the easier it is to use all my energy to accomplish what I set out to do.”Siobhan Helene SheaPresident, Palm Beach ChapterFl…
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Turning Points
F.A.W.L. Journal(a Publication of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers)Summer 2003 Then indecision brings its own delays And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days. Are you in earnest: Seize this very minute, What you can do, or dream you can,…
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Clear the Obstacles to a Balanced Life
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America(reprinted with permission of TRIAL)August 2003 Are you a perfectionist? A pessimist? An all-or-nothing competitor? If so, you may be headed for burnout. Avoid these traps, and you’ll have a shot at long-t…
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Balancing Your Life Is Impossible - Unless You Take The Time To Reflect
The Bulletin(a publication of the Alameda County Bar Association)Volume 34, Number 3, Pages 16-17May/June 2003 To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human…
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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Learn Resilience
North Carolina LawyerSeptember/October 2002 “More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, a…
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Making the Business Case for Balanced Hours
F.A.W.L. Journal(A Publication of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers)Winter 2001 The need for businesses to enable employees to balance their work and personal lives has not changed simply because the economy has slowed. If anything, the event…
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Work from Home Without Turning Home into Work
San Francisco AttorneyVolume 27, Number 5October/November, 2001 A clinical psychologist provides ten helpful hints for striking a delicate balance. Electronic communication has freed many attorneys to do a significant portion of their work from home.…
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Mentoring: Constructing a Personal Advisory Board
Wisconsin LawyerOctober 2001 Lawyers At Every Stage Of Career Development Need To Learn From Other People In Order to Succeed. Here’s How To Proactively Develop Relationships With Knowledge Experts, Mentors, And Strategic Allies. “As any good mou…
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Ten Steps for Building an Acceptable Level of Confidence
AdvanceSheet(a newsletter published by Oregon Women Lawyers)Volume 12, Number 2Spring 2001 Many women lawyers appear to lack confidence because they require too high a level of confidence before holding forth. They are not used to experiencing tempor…
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