
To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. We live in a culture that glorifies the hustle, and early in my legal career, I was fully bought in. So when a senior associate I deeply respected criticized constant weekend work as poor case management, it stopped me in my tracks. If […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. Oftentimes, planning gets categorized as less valuable than the work we should be doing. So if you’ve been skipping your planning session because you don’t think you can bill for it, or if you don’t bill for your time but find your planning […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. A friend of mine sent a message in a group chat: “Is AI making anybody else’s ADHD symptoms feel worse?” I get what she means. Let’s kick off a conversation about why AI makes us feel this way and what we can do […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. If you have an ever-different schedule due to your work schedule, a partner’s, or something else, the Bright Method may sound like it wouldn’t work for you (after all, I talk a lot about calendaring repetative things), but it SHINES for people like […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. One week. That’s how long a contractor’s email had been sitting in Kelly’s inbox, waiting on a reply. Her first reaction was the familiar one: I teach time management, I should’ve responded faster. Then she stopped herself, because the email wasn’t a priority, […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. A client said it like it was just a fact: if she pushed back on new work, those clients would take their business elsewhere and never come back. Kelly heard it, recognized the fear behind it, and also recognized she’d spent years operating […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. Most of us grew up with the same rule: you start something, you finish it, no matter what. So if you’ve ever stayed in a commitment well past the point where it was working for you, or found yourself white-knuckling through something out […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. In this episode of The Bright Method Podcast, Kelly Nolan riffs on a question from a friend: why does it always take so long to get out of the house in the morning, and what do you actually do about it? She walks […]
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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. In this episode of The Bright Method Podcast, Kelly Nolan is back from the break and walks through the one line item she wants in your weekly planning session – the Clean Slate – and why reviewing last week packs a bigger punch […]
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A woman recently shared with me that she’s spent by 2:30pm each workday and was curious what low-energy tasks are good fits for the remainder of her workday. These are the types of questions that are so fun to dig into and personalize with clients (matching tasks to energy is a big part of the […]
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I'm a former big law attorney who got overwhelmed as a first year and slowly pieced together a time/task management system that actually reduced my stressed, helped me stay on top of it all (and know it), feel confident drawing boundaries, and soak in time with my family and friends. I'd love to get you there, too.