When Lawyers Disappoint

Lawyers, despite their best efforts, do disappoint. But how do you handle that disappointment as it relates to your business?  Disappointment can push us into reaction mode, and by failing to delegate the people who are supposed to handle certain tasks because we don't trust them, we are capping our ability to grow. We are restricting ourselves from the next iteration of our business, which requires that we perform at our highest level all the time. And we don't get there when we are holding on to things that are frankly below our pay grade.   In this episode we discuss: Three-Steps to handle disappointment. Acknowledging the difference between right and wrong. Allowing yourself to process your emotions and the grief of loss you feel in disappointment. How every challenge in your life is an opportunity to seek the next opportunity.   My favorite excerpt from the episode: TIME: 00:31:11 (24 Seconds)  I want to allow my mind to just kind of sit with all the opportunities right now. And when you allow yourself to acknowledge the right and wrong of a situation, you develop empathy. Frankly, for other people, that tends to lessen the feeling of disappointment when you allow yourself to process your emotions, process the grief of loss that you feel that you didn't get what you wanted in a moment, but you are going to move forward from that by doing the third thing, which is seeking opportunity.   Contacts - Social Media Book a Session with our Growth Strategists https://www.lawfirmmentor.net/speak-with-a-growth-strategist     Allison Bio: Allison C. Williams, Esq., is the 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.