The productive lawyer: squeezing more work into your busy day
Last night, I heard a speaker talking about how he found more time for work in his already busy schedule.
He had his weekly calendar up on a slide, showing his 12 hour work-days, and showed how he was able to find another 30 hours a week (30!) by doing things like making calls during his commute to and from work, taking 15 minutes to eat dine as a replacement for of an hour, and who knows what else he said, I tuned out about a third of the way through his presentation.
I don't want to do more work. I work sufficient as it is. Really, if I were honest about it, what I want to do is less work. Much less. Like none at all.
Of course that depends on how you define work. Here's a simple definition I just made up: if it's not fun, it's work.
So what I really want to do is get rid of everything I don't like doing and exchange it with things I delight in.
Is that unrealistic? Excellent! Then unrealistic is what I want to be!
Yes, I know there will always be things I can't depute, things I don't want to do but must. But that doesn't mean I have to fill my day with these kinds of things, let alone find ways to squeeze even more hours of unpleasantness into my day.
Okay, I know I'm ranting, but this guy bummed me out. I should have heard him out (so I could share more of his thoughts with you) and simply changed the word "work" to fun. "How to find an additional 30 hours a week for fun". Now that would have been an awesome presentation.