Cybersecurity and Wire Fraud

The Northern Kentucky Bar Association’s Lawyers Living Well Committee recently circulated an email that provided helpful strategies to lower your stress. The following tips and strategies can be implemented to help lower the stress in both your professional and personal lives.

Strategies to Lower Stress

1. Resist giving a client your cell number. You likely have an office number, so provide that number instead.
2. Stop eating lunch at your desk. Taking a break from your workspace provides a break from your day and helps your mind take a break as well.
3. Walk into court knowing when your big upcoming hearings are so you don’t schedule yourself back-to-back. Calendaring is essential and will prevent unnecessary stress if you are able to manage your schedule and allow time for sufficient time between major cases.
4. Try and limit the number of times per day your check your emails (or have a staff person triage them if you are lucky).
5. Block schedule: block out time for consults, checking emails, drafting time, calling clients, etc. and stick to it.
6. If you have children, when the school calendar comes out, immediately put all the “off days” in your work calendar and schedule court around them.
7. For in-office days, after spending time at your desk, make time to get up and walk around your building or outside in the morning and once in the afternoon.
8. If you have billable hours, do not leave before the end of the day without entering your time. If you don’t, this will only cause more stress down the road when billable time is due.
9. Learn how to say, “No.” If you have enough on your plate already, there is no shame or harm in simply saying, “no”, to taking on that new case or adding another event to your already busy schedule.