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June 2008You'll Never Walk Alone* Alvah Parker is a Practice Advisor who works with attorneys who want to build a profitable practice that is both meaningful and satisfying. Dedicated to helping lawyers and others to find work that is meaningful and satisfying Alvah is also an Authorized Life Blueprint® Facilitator. She guides clients through a structured program to find their life purpose and then helps them to find work that allows them to express that purpose. Alvah also volunteers as a SCORE Business Counselor in the Northeastern Massachusetts Chapter 411. * Title of a song from Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Using song titles is just my way of expressing my love of music and musical theater. Each time I come up with a title I rediscover a song I love. Special Offer for JuneCoaching with a copy of my E-Book - More Clients in Less Time - 110 Powerful Tips for Attorneys You'll get a half hour coaching session as well as this e-book which includes 11 of my most popular tip lists for attorneys along with additional comments from me. We can use the tip list as a starting place for the coaching or we can focus on any other issue you wish to find some action steps for. People who have read this e-book have commented that the lists are:
The total cost for both the E-Book along with one half hour of coaching time is $55. Coaching is generally purchased in multiple sessions so a single session option is not usually available. I am offering it this month as a special for my newsletter readers only. Also included is a copy of my E-Book, More Clients in Less Time - 110 Powerful Tips for Attorneys, ($7.50 on my website). Use the coaching time to learn how to apply some of the tips to your practice or bring a specific marketing or time management problem that you would like to work with the coach on. During the coaching session we will create a simple action plan for you to follow that will resolve your issue. To schedule your coaching session please send me an email at asparker@asparker.com with your name and telephone number. I'll call you to arrange the telephone time and answer any questions you may have.
Be sure to look at all my offers for attorneys!
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Welcome WelcomeRoad to Success is an email newsletter written for those who want to find new ways to approach their work and personal life so that their whole life is more fulfilling and productive. I write this newsletter on topics that I find challenging in my own work-life. As Lily Tomlin says, "The road to success is always under construction." I welcome your ideas and hints too. My vision for this newsletter is that it will be a means for us to learn from each other. While I'd love it if you read every word I write, I know that you are busy, so you skim. To help you do that I plan to keep this paragraph and the one above constant. If you are skimming, just jump to paragraphs three and beyond. There have been lots of new subscribers this month. Welcome to you all! At the beginning of this year I moved my list to a new host. That entailed having everyone re-subscribe. Financially it made a lot of sense but psychologically I had to gear up for it. For one thing I knew that only about 200 of the 1300 subscribers were actually opening my email so I suspected that my list of subscribers would decrease to 200 or fewer. Today my list has 377 subscribers, almost twice what I had expected. I want you all to know how much I appreciate you! While losing 1000 subscribers by switching is upsetting, my email gets opened by around 75% of my subscribers each time. I feel really good about that because the industry average for newsletters being opened is about 20%. I'd like to continue having you read my newsletter so if there is a topic that you are interested in, please let me know. I'll do my best to address the topics you suggest. In addition if you know someone who would appreciate my newsletter, please send them a copy of this one and suggest that they subscribe. I welcome new subscribers. In this newsletter I strive to provide interesting comments on current topics and thoughtful material that is easy to read and skim. Thank you for reading Road to Success and Parker's Points.
Sincerely,
June is Bustin Out All Over*
Be Happy and Healthy! Take a Vacation! It is summer and vacation time again. This year there is a new twist. The economy and specifically gas prices are making people reconsider vacations. Americans have always been good at putting off vacations so this year they have a built in excuse. According to an Expedia.com poll a third of all Americans do not take all their vacation days. The Bureau of Labor Statics says that one quarter of all Americans get no paid vacation! That was a surprise to me although as a business owner in a solo practice I get no paid vacation either. I have written on the topic of vacations before. You can find many of the benefits in my list of Ten Reasons Everyone Needs a Vacation A recent New York Times article by Alina Tugend entitled Vacations Are Good For You, Medically Speaking makes the point that recent studies show that vacations are necessary for good health. The article sites two different health studies (one with females and the other males) that showed a high percentage of coronary problems occur for those who do not vacation regularly. A vacation gives you time to unwind. It allows you to de-stress and relax. There is research evidence you sleep better during and after your vacation. I have always been amazed that that relaxed vacation calmness lasts for a few days when I return. By the way for those who carry cell phones and Blackberries to check on work back at the office on their vacation, there have been studies to show that you are less likely to receive the benefits of vacation according to the NY Times article. So if you haven't planned your vacation yet, now is the time to do it. If you are the type to check in with the office, find a place where cell phones and Blackberries don't work so you can truly relax. (It can be hard to unhook from the cell phone/Blackberry addiction! but worth it.) If you have young children, vacations with them can be exhausting. That is not the kind of vacation that relaxes! Young families need to take two vacations, one with the family and one for the parents alone. As a Grandmother I am always delighted to be asked to baby sit while my daughter and son-in law go on vacation. I once went to Disney World with them so they could have time with each other and I could watch the children. If you have this option, you get a rest and please your parents too. For my vacation this year, I will be participating in the Berkshire Choral Festival. I enjoy vacations where I do something I don't get enough of during the year. For me that is singing. I'll spend a week learning and rehearsing Carmina Burana and then with a group of other singers we will perform it on July 19th for an audience. If you live near Sheffield MA I'd love it if you came to hear me! Whether you like adventurous vacations, learning vacations, traveling vacations or just sit by the pool vacations, it is important to change your environment once or twice a year and just have some fun. (What is all that work for?) Where you go or what you do isn't as important as just enjoying yourself and letting go for a bit. If you haven't scheduled your vacation yet, do it today. Take Action
*A song from the musical Carousel by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein
Some Say*Quotes
Ernest Hemingway
Leonardo Da Vinci
Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Morris Fishbein
Ellen Goodman
*Title of a song from Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
"Good News"*What's New?1. Making Right Turns - Read this article about UPS finding a really creative way to save time. Are there creative ways for you to save time in your practice? 2. The Fine Art of Small Talk - Small talk is a necessary skill to build relationships. Read this ABA article to get some ideas about how to start a conversation, use good listening skills, and how to leave a conversation to meet more people.
3. Simple ways to donate - No Money involved! - http://www.thehungersite.com/ and http://thebreastcancersite.com/ are two websites that allow you to make a donation with the click of your mouse. The hunger site donates a cup of food to the hungry each time you click. The breast cancer site donates one mammogram for each click. No money is involved here. The advertisers pay everything. All it takes is a minute to click. You are allowed to make the donation to each site once every day. 4. Change of Address - At the end of this newsletter you will see a link for unsubscribing. To change your address unsubscribe your old address and re-subscribe at http://www.asparker.com/samples.html with your new address.
5. Not receiving your newsletter regularly? - Many subscribers have a limited amount of email space provided to them (Yahoo, Juno etc). When you reach the limit you can no longer receive email. Another problem may be sp*m filters. Make sure that asparker@asparker.com appears in your address book to insure delivery. If you do not receive your copy of Road to Success or Parker's Points one month one of these may be the reason why. I never resend the newsletter. I now publish the most current issue on my website http://www.asparker.com/rtslawnew.html * Song title from the musical Good News by Ray Henderson, B.G. Deserve, Lew Brown, Ann Morrison, Linda Michele, Michael Gruber, Wayne Bryan
About Alvah ParkerAlvah Parker is a Practice Advisor and Career Coach. An award winning Account Executive and Sales Manager for AT&T, Alvah has successfully coached clients to define and achieve their goals. At AT&T, as a SCORE counselor and as a Practice Advisor, Alvah uses her business knowledge to help her clients develop a business and/or career plan. Alvah specializes in working with attorneys who want to build a profitable and fulfilling practice as well as people in transition who are interested in exploring new career options. Her coaching helps her clients to get clear about their personal vision. From that they design a plan and strategy for the future based on that vision. Alvah coaches her clients over the telephone. This means she can be reached from anywhere in the world. You can reach Alvah at 781-598-0388 or asparker@asparker.com. Copyright © 2008 all rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce or copy Road to Success in its entirety including copyright and contact information.
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