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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill It’s nice when something clicks. It’s ra…

Marketing ~ Keep it Simple – Julian Summerhayes

K.I.S.S. was my mantra in practice. I had to practice it every day; the temptation was to overcomplicate things, which is in the nature of the profes…

Making the most of life – Julian Summerhayes

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj Do we ever make the most…

Love hurts – Julian Summerhayes

I wrote this last night. The title? It’s a Don McClean song (actually it was written by Boudleaux Bryant and first recorded by the Everly Brothers in…

Lost for words – Julian Summerhayes

No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from livi…

Looking (constantly) for an Edge in the delivery of legal services – Julian Summerhayes

Legal services is legal services. Of a kind, they are the same. Consider your service lines: Private client (wills, probate and tax); Conveyancing; C…

Look around you – Julian Summerhayes

“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle” ― Osho The world is changing, fast. Sure, some might deny that we’re the actors of our own demise but you’d have t…

Living the lie – Julian Summerhayes

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” ― Virginia Woolf Each day we live a lie. It’s simple to state, i…

Living on the content edge – Julian Summerhayes

Did you read Seth Godin’s post Ridiculous is the new remarkable (where he refers to the above book)? At the end he said: “Two more thoughts on this: …

Letting go – Julian Summerhayes

This message is oft repeated. Let go of what? Normally, our thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations. Try it. It’s impossible. But then again, you…

Letting go – Julian Summerhayes

The world is awash in information but most of it — from my purview — adds f- all to what we already know. And we know, despite what we may think, one…

Letting go – Julian Summerhayes

When we think of letting go, and allowing things to be, we picture someone who has given up. Nowadays, if you don’t espouse drive, ambition and succe…

Let’s just max out – Julian Summerhayes

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. ― Chuang Tzu No one cares about climate change. Even yesterday, as I endured another day in…

Less is More … to the Point – Julian Summerhayes

Re-Work is a magical book. It is short, shorter than nearly every other business book I have read. Oh, and it has some delightful art. The story goes…

Legal Education – It Ends at the Start? – Julian Summerhayes

Law degree LPC Training Contract (ye old Articles) One message: to equip you for a life of service. Not: a billing machine. Education is a lifelong p…

Lawyers: Just make Bigger promises – Julian Summerhayes

Lawyers (and all those in Professional Services) agonise over the idea of differentiation or more colloquially known as your U.S.P (Unique Selling Pr…

Lawyers and Management (Nature vs. Nurture?) – Julian Summerhayes

The nature versus nurture debate is not something that I have seen considered save in the context of a small amount of training around emotional inte…

Update: A few thoughts … – Julian Summerhayes

This post was first published on 16 November 2010 under a slightly different title. I thought it was about time I revisited it with a view to incorpo…

Law Firms – “Go for Growth” – Julian Summerhayes

Right now most law firms will either be budget setting or have concluded the process. Pre-recession, the task was easy: Take a figure of around 10%, …

Keeping the flame burning | Julian Summerhayes

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou I’ve not gone away. Nor do I have any intention of doing so. If a…

Keeping an open mind – Julian Summerhayes

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki This is not the first time I have referred…

Just keep going – Julian Summerhayes

Now when I started out on this journey â€“ blog, Twitter, Facebook and not quite, but almost, every social media site in Town (Jeff Bullas is still m…

I’ve updated my blog – Julian Summerhayes

Thanks to Jamie Todd Rubin I’ve finally plucked up the courage to update my blog to the WordPress Twenty Nineteen theme. This has come at a very prop…

It’s only getting worse – Julian Summerhayes

The whole damn thing, of course. The earth is being depleted of its resources, the rich are getting richer (the numbers are off the scale), people ar…