139 | “I Can’t Manage My Money Better Because…”

Whenever you want to do something new, like managing your money better, your brain will present all the reasons why you can’t. But just as there may be reasons why you can’t do the new thing, there are also plenty of reasons why you can. In this episode,...

137 | Choosing Your Hard

Many lawyers put off learning to manage their money better because they think it will be hard. Change feels uncomfortable. New sometimes feels hard. But we overlook the fact that it also feels hard and uncomfortable to want to change your situation and not be where...

136 | The Grace of One Day Only

Lawyers often put so much pressure on ourselves to always be striving for the next thing and to get there faster. But when you’re always so focused on what’s next and how far you are from your goal, you make your present experience more difficult than it has to be. In...

135 | Buckets of Money

I find that when lawyers are running into issues like rising credit card balances or overdrafting their accounts, it’s typically because they’re not balancing how they’re using their money. There are always three buckets that are competing for your...

133 | This Is Just the Beginning

Listen in as I reflect on 2022. I’m really proud of the work I did and the things my clients accomplished in the past year. And I’m just getting started. In this episode, let’s talk about viewing each thing you do as just the beginning of what...

132 | Examples of What’s Possible

One of my favorite ways to motivate myself when working on a goal is to look at examples of other people who have done what I want to do. Because someone else has done the thing, I know it’s possible for me, too. We often want to pick out all the parts of other...

131 | The X Factor

“I’m just not good with money.” So many lawyers believe this or similar statements about their abilities with money. But all of them stem from the mistaken belief that some people are inherently good with money. That some people have the “X...

130 | Unintentional Priorities

We unintentionally prioritize things in our lives when we’re not being thoughtful about our choices or the tradeoffs that come along with them. I see it happen all the time in personal finance. When you don’t have a plan for your money or don’t...