Be Yourself Again

Read this episode: Reclaim Your Energy with Time Peace

What if you could get a step-by-step plan to change how you live your life?

 

Would you decide to do it? Or would you decide to stay the same? To keep doing what you’re doing hoping for a different result?

 

Our life is based on a series of decisions that we make moment by moment, day by day.

 

Everything we do, say, experience, is the result of a choice that we’ve made some where in the past.

 

The beautiful thing about this is that we get a choice every moment to make a difference in the way we experience life.

 

Every morning when I wake up, I make a decision to do something that is going to benefit me whether it’s how I feel physically or mentally. 

 

Every moment as I go through my day I re-decide to be present, be kind, re-focus on my work or whatever else I have deemed important for me and how I want to show up in the world.

And it's not always easy when we are used to the same habits, we're used to the same way of thinking and being. 

 

If we’ve chosen one set of habits over and over again, we forget that we have a choice. It simply becomes who we think we are or how we think life is supposed to be.

 

I was talking to a lawyers who went through the last round of Time Peace for Lawyers™, and he told me that he really believed that in order to be considered a proper lawyer, he was supposed to rush in through the door of his office every morning and blaze through work. He didn’t know there was another way until he went through the program.

 

He chose to do something different, so he could make a difference in the way he experienced his life. Now he has the time to go home at a reasonable hour, have dinner with his family, help his kids with homework and do things around the house like cleaning that he really didn’t do as much of before because he has the energy to do so. 

 

I want to ask you this. When you get up in the morning, do you know how you feel? Do you like how you feel? Do your eyes pop open and you already feel overwhelmed and some anxiety creeping in?

What do you do every morning? Do you have a relaxed morning or do you hit snooze a dozen times and run around like a chicken with their head cut off?

It’s easy to do the same thing we always do and not check in and ask ourselves how do we WANT to feel today?

 

It’s not intuitive to even ask ourselves how we want to feel. We just feel how we feel and may not think there’s a choice. I thought that for a long time.

 

And if you don’t have a coach, if you're not used to this idea that you can do something different, then it can be very easy to listen to a podcast like this one and beat yourself up for not “being better”

 

First of all, if you notice yourself doing that, you don't have to do that. It's totally optional to beat yourself up. Did you know that? I didn't know that for a long time, and my norm was to be really hard on myself for not changing things. For not being further along — whatever that meant to me at the time.

 

But once I got a step back, I got some distance, then I was able to make changes like I'm telling you about right now. 

 

One of things I did — which I’m going to walk members in this round of Time Peace — is do an audit. I audited where I invested my time and attention whether it was how much time I spent on social media, how many times I checked email throughout the day, how much time I spent chatting with co-workers. I collected data.

 

I used that data like pieces of a puzzle to solve versus a problem with how I was behaving and spending my time. And I started to just say, okay, this is what's happening right now. This is my current reality. What do I want to change? 

 

One of the very first things I changed in my life was how I decided to run my mornings.

I was practicing the law full time, and I knew I felt like my mornings were hectic. I decided I didn’t want to feel that way any more, and I started getting to work, doing the work to figure out the pieces of the puzzle that I needed to switch up and move those puzzle pieces around to intentionally design my life the way I wanted it to look.

 

When I did this, my mornings improved bit by bit, then I noticed my days improving radically. I felt better in the morning, and that trickled down to the rest of my day. My work product improved, my attitude at the office improved, and I had more energy to pursue things I loved like building a business on top of my law practice.

 

And we all have these spots in our lives that we can look at more closely without judgment and improve when we start paying attention.

 

So that's why Timepiece for Lawyers for Me, was a no-brainer to create. 

 

Because every single client that I was working with, every single lawyer that I talked to, they struggled with similar things. 

• Feeling rushed going from appointment to appointment.

• Feeling overwhelmed with the work that kept coming in the door.

• Feeling anxiety around work on their to-do list.

• Feeling worry that they might miss something or drop a ball.

• Feeling stress when they thought about difficult conversations they needed to have around boundaries.

• Feeling shame that they weren’t better at being a lawyer or further along in achieving their goals.

• Feeling disappointed in themselves for not getting more work done.

• Feeling guilt that they weren’t spending enough time with family or doing enough for them.

Something several of my students in Time Peace last round said was how refreshing and comforting it was to know that there were other lawyers experiencing the same things and that they could talk so freely amongst themselves because they could see that other lawyers had some of the same issues.

 

Part of what I’m doing this round at the suggestion of one of my students was create a private Facebook community for those who join Time Peace. That way you can continue conversations that we had in our group call and have additional support between each weekly session if you want it.

 

If you’re listening to this episode, and you’re nodding along or saying, “Yes, that’s me,” then I want to let you know that Time Peace for Lawyers™ is where you want to be.

 

It’s a supportive environment where you get to learn the skills to change yourself from the inside out.  

 

Those changes allow you to not only be more productive but to feel better every single day.

You’ll feel more energized to restart an old hobby.

 

You’ll feel calmer starting your day, and it will impact how you interact with everyone from the barista you see in the morning to the opposing counsel you see in the afternoon and to your spouse when you go home at night.

 

You’ll learn how to set and keep boundaries with your employees or family members, so you can have the space and focus you need to do what you need to do in your day.

 

You get all the tools you need to do these things inside of Time Peace.

 

A lot of times thinking about all the things we want to change can feel overwhelming, and we don't even know the first step to get started. 

 

So that's why in Time Peace, I'm really walking you step by step through my process to help you create the space that you need in 12 weeks to begin changing your life. 

 

One lawyer commented on how much more calmer they felt after just a couple weeks.

They felt less overwhelmed, less pressure, and they felt more in control of their time.

 

Before this program, they never thought that was possible. 

 

When you're stuck in a rut doing the same things over and over, the same habits over and over, it's really easy to start to doubt whether or not you're even capable of doing anything different.

 

If that's where you are right now, I wanna offer to you that you are in the right place and that you can change things, and I'm going to help you every step of the way. 

Every week for 12 weeks we’ll have one hour devoted to coaching and strategizing to help you take control of your time and your law practice.

 

We’ve cover everything under the sun including boundaries, resetting relationships with assistants that aren’t performing the way you’d like them to, delegating more of your work, creating systems to help you train support, learning how to manage your time effectively and prioritize, learn how to use a calendar properly which lawyers are not taught how to do.

 

You’ll feel more freedom than you thought possible because you’re taking charge of your time and your mindset.

 

You begin realizing that there are more choices available to you than you thought.

And it's so much easier to make new choices when you're surrounded by people who want make change. I remember when I was practicing that I was around a bunch of people who weren't really into personal development <laugh>, they really were just working as hard as they could to get work done, staying late nights, working week-ends, taking work home with them. And that was not helpful for me because I knew that I wanted to create something different, but all I was surrounded with were people who all thought the same. 

 

Yeah, there's times when you do need to stay later at the office as a lawyer, but you don't have to do it to the point where you're killing yourself. 

 

Time Peace for Lawyers™ shows you a better way of doing things.

 

In addition to the 12 weeks we’ll have together, you’ll also receive trainings that give you everything you need to stop feeling overwhelmed and take control of your time.

 

When you enroll, you’ll watch the welcome video where you’ll be walked step-by-step thought what’s in the library.

You’ll be given a 12 week Time Peace Roadmap, so you know exactly what to do from week-to-week and you can place it on your calendar.

You’ll be given all the dates of our sessions and bonus sessions.

You’ll also get a one-day planner to help you tame overwhelm from day one, and as you do these, you’ll build confidence that you can create a weekly schedule for yourself. You’ll learn the skills you need to prioritize when you have emergencies and the schedule will actually help you better manage emergencies when they come up. You’ll also learn how to stop some of these 911s from happening in the first place as you work with the materials.

 

If you’re worried you won’t be able to make all the live calls, don’t be because you’ll get the replay recordings in the library as well as access to three bonus make-up calls. And of course you can ask for help in the private Facebook community when it comes up.

 

Another bonus I’m bringing back for this round of Time peace for lawyers is the Focus Hour, which is a co-working space where you can bring your toughest projects or those things you've been putting off and bring them to a group where you see other people working That can be incredibly motivating.

 

You’ll also get a ton of bonus trainings inside the library that you can learn all about at dinacataldo.com/timpeace

At the bottom of that page, I have a video that takes you step-by-step through the library, so you can see everything that you’ll get this round of Time Peace.

 

We’re enrolling for the January 2025 Time Peace for Lawyers™ class now. We’re only enrolling December 3rd through December 13th. When you enroll now, you’ll get immediate access to the trainings as well as access the private Facebook community.