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    • Emotional Intelligence

      Everyone is familiar with "IQ" -- intelligence quotient. Most lawyers put their IQ scores up there with their SAT and LSAT scores as generally acknowledged evidence of their competence. But what is your emotional intelligence quotient? And why should you care? (read more)


    • Home-Based Business FAQ

      Experts estimate that as many as 20 percent of new small business enterprises are operated out of the owner's home. Local SBA offices and state chambers of commerce can provide pertinent information on how to manage a home-based business. (read more)


    • Get People to Do What You Want

      In business, school, romance, or your neighborhood, it is valuable to know what attracts people, what repels them, and what makes them tick. How do people see you? And how do you see others? (read more)

    • You Can't Do It All - Learning To Delegate

      There is not a single management skill more critical to your personal and professional success as an entrepreneur than learning to delegate. (read more)


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Five Key Lessons I Learned From Starting My Own Practice

FindLaw guest columnist, attorney, and "Kelly's Court" legal commentator Jonna Spilbor reveals the advantages she enjoyed and the risks she took in recently deciding to found her own solo legal practice. From her own experience, Spilbor derives five key lessons for aspiring solo practitioners, covering topics ranging from budgeting, to choosing an office, to tailoring that office to your own needs and preferences, to hiring an assistant, to finding clients, to keeping those clients happy. (read more)

Smile As You Work Through Difficult Challenges, Failure and Tragedy and You Will Achieve Success

Why are failure and adversity so necessary for success? Andy Andrews knows from personal experience. (read more)

What's Wrong With You? 4 Tips To Gauge Your Health Before It's Too Late

The New England Journal Of Medicine reports the average doctor's appointment lasts less than 22 minutes. It's becoming the patient's responsibility to keep an eye on their own changing health, guide their doctors, and do their own bodies 'preventive maintenance.' Here are 4 warning signs to find out if you are on the path to cancer, stroke or other illnesses. (read more)

Breaking Free: How to Travel and Work Remotely

When Rebecca Long Okura, managing attorney of her own firm, met her soul mate, David, he was self-employed as a freelance writer and used to the freedom of working anywhere. However, Rebecca’s work wasn’t as flexible: it was paper intensive and required frequent face-to-face interaction. By working with David, she was able find a way to break free. (read more)

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