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I write about faster, better ways to communicate your ideas to tough audiences - aimed at lawyers/professionals who communicate complexity. Also how to have presence when presenting.

4 Questions to Reinvent Your Work, Feel Energized + Love What You Do

“This year I want to figure out what I want to be when I grow up...”

I’ve heard it several times in the last month talking with very accomplished, truly impressive women.Their work in companies + law firms is draining them. They want to reinvent their work, but don't know how.

First and most important is this mindset:

🌟Ground yourself in your past successes - they are clues to your path forward🌟

Here are 4 questions I used to reinvent my work + life

1- Which clients do you love working with and why exactly?

2- Which problems do you love solving and why exactly?

3- Which skills do you love using and why exactly?

4- EXACTLY when do you light up and feel energized in your work now?

-> Focus on NOW, then answer these 4 questions again for all past jobs, work, projects.

WHY LISTEN TO ME?

The one about ‘skills you love using’ is how I reinvented my work nearly 25 years ago.
I had noticed it over a decade or so before 🙄 ... but ignored it.

I ignored that I came alive - and felt 100% myself - when I was speaking in public. That when I finished speaking, I felt 20 feet tall. So energized and alive.

So it took me many years, and several other careers, to realize the significance of that skill that I loved.

Eventually I created my current business - from the inside out. So that I could be a speaker as many minutes per month possible. I used the answers to the other 3 questions to build out my business where:

I AM A SPEAKER who helps law firm lawyers to succeed by: speaking with presence, feeling confident, demonstrating their expertise, and BEING HEARD.