The Easiest Way to Create Success - Replay from May 2021

This episode is dedicated to the topic of success. It was originally recorded and published in May 2021, so if you’re new to my podcast, I’m bringing this one back just for you.    Several of us as solo and small law firm attorneys want success, and we all have these grandiose thoughts about what success looks like. But then, we see people that we perceive to be successful who are not living that for themselves. Instead, they are working 80-90 hours a week. They're exhausted, moody, or may even have health problems. They may have just a negative disposition about life. We begin to think that you can’t experience both success and freedom.   Sometimes we're pursuing success and sometimes we're pursuing rest and relaxation, as if those two things run counter to each other. But I want to give you a framework today to actually see success very differently so that you'll be able to create success easier, faster and with more ease along the path. In this episode we discuss: The power of envisioning success to create what your very own success looks like for you. How success looks different for different people. Planning for the reality of your successful dream life. How ‘Acting As If’ embodies being, doing and having the lifestyle you desire. Identifying what you can change in your belief cycle to help focus on desired outcomes. Agreeing not to stop the process when you hit your terror barrier. Allison Bio:   Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law.    Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.  In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.   In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers.  She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.  Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms.  Contact Info:   https://lawfirmmentor.net/speak-with-a-growth-strategist/    Contact Law Firm Mentor: Scheduler: https://meetme.so/LawFirmMentor     Snippets 00:02:45 (49 Seconds) So what does it mean to get to that easy way of creating success? Well, this is going to sound really, really, really offensive. So please promise me that you're going to stick around for a couple of minutes after I say this. Don't tune me out right away. But the easiest way to create success is simply to create the vision. Now, whenever I tell lawyers that all you have to do is envision what your success will look like, I get a lot of eye rolls, I get a lot of tuning out. I get kind of the blank stare. So I want to tell you what I mean by that, and why it's so important that that's where we start.   00:09:13 (36 Seconds) You start creating all of the excuses, all of the rationalizations as to why you can't have what you want before you actually seek what you want. So it's important that you actually seek what you want first and hold firm to that vision and let your energy go behind what you want so that that's what expands in your life. OK, after you've created the vision, the next thing is, the part that's not so sexy is creating the plan. You have to plan the eventuality that you're going to have this life.