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TIPS FOR LAWYERS: Creating Effective Habits in the New Year..  by: Jatrine Bentsi-Enchill, J.D., CPCC It's that time of year where we all feel enormous pressure to make resolutions for personal and professional improvement. Lawyers are no exception! The problem is too often we set the new goals without a real plan of how we're going to avoid reverting to our old habits! Habits can be a friend or foe. Think of a habit as a pattern of behavior. Successful habits...help us to achieve success...other habits undermine our efforts to achieve. Here is a great exercise for getting rid of old habits and replacing them with habits designed to help you to more effectively achieve your objectives. STEP ONE: List 3 or more habits that are currently holding you back from achieving your goals and describe how these habits negatively impact your life. EXAMPLE: Habit: No savings/investments for the future Impact: Unable to achieve financial and retirement goals STEP TWO List successful habits you will choose to adopt in place of the "bad" habits and the benefits of adopting the new habit EXAMPLE: Successful New Habit: Begin investing with the help of a financial planner. Benefits: Debt free, financial freedom, comfy retirement. STEP THREE Create a 3 step action plan to jumpstart each new habit. Be specific, pick a start date, a completion date and get started! EXAMPLE: Action Plan 1) Find an excellent financial planner 2) Set up s monthly savings and investment plan 3) Create a realistic spending plan and look for ways to trim unnecessary spending. Start Date: January 7 Completion date: January 17th Implementing new habits, new patterns of behavior, will take time. Stay committed to the process and you’ll soon achieve your desired results. About The Author Jatrine Bentsi-Enchill, J.D., CPCC is an attorney and the founder and director of the Esq. Development Institute, an organization committed to helping lawyers excel personally and professionally. The Esq. Development Institute specializes in Executive and Personal Coaching for lawyers and training and assessment processes for law firms in the areas of leadership, communication, diversity and cultural competence, management development and work-life balance EsqDevelopmentInstitute.com jbe@EsqDevelopmentInstitute.com This article was posted on January 06, 2005 Read More Articles from the "Self Improvement and Motivation" Category: Salute Your Magnificence by Grace Cirocco Lessons from Legacy: Life by Design Part 2 by Melissa Galt Like Father by Wayne and Tamara Three Keys to Managing Your Stress Every Day by Karin Vibe Rheymer Stewart Keeping the Dream Alive by Thelma Mariano God Is My Boss by Lisa Natoli Ode to a Spoon by Deirdre McEachern Life Coach, Another Trend? by Devlyn Steele Step 2 - Realization of Who You Are by Elysha Elysha Recovering Your Mental Health by Arthur Buchanan << Back to "Self Improvement And Motivation" Index

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