We have lived the small law firm life and seeing the challenges, failures, and successes of others we have coached throughout the U.S. for over 20 years.

“We” includes me, Candace Pollock, founder and primary coach. While I prefer to focus on the “we”, I also understand that my personal journey may be helpful to you as you consider your own. We will also involve others as coaches, instructors, and guest contributors.

In my own journey, I have made all of the mistakes we talk about. I followed the traditional approaches to create a successful solo-small firm professional practice and enjoyed what others would call success—I was one of those “seemingly successful” advisors—even to myself.

However, truth be told, I was always over-busy and always retooling some process that wasn’t quite working. We never quite arriving at sustainable results. Doubts about the merits of a lot of traditional approaches had already started to move me to explore other approaches.

It wasn’t until my husband’s illness and swift death, that I was forced to step out of my busyness and look at my life. I recognized that much of my time and attention produced marginal results. This was why we didn’t feel we were getting sustainable results—because we weren’t!

Looking back, I saw that I had enough “mistakes” to have earned a PhD. I was too busy to even notice how much I was tolerating. This accelerated my desire to rethink the approaches I had been trained to rely on. Technical expertise and marketing are important but I saw that traditional approaches were not addressing root causes of the challenges and, in fact, often created their own problems.

It doesn’t all happen overnight but it does happen exponentially. Coaching can give you critical thinking skills so you can start seeing other perspectives about your practice and personal life. More “forks in the road” open up to you and you can intentionally pick the path that makes sense for you.

You are at a fork in the road now. Stay on the hamster wheel or explore a different approach. We’ve been there. What do you want? What do you no longer want? What is getting in the way? We can help you figure that out.

If you’re ready to start your new path or just curious about what it entails, schedule a free call where we can answer your questions about how our programs and coaching can help you create the life and practice you want and whether we are a good fit for each other.

We think the best definition of happiness comes from Shawn Achor, Professor of Happiness, at Harvard University: “The joy one feels striving for one’s potential…. happiness fuels success, not the other way around.”

Our joy is helping our clients grow toward their full potential–in business and in life.

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