Four Quadrants to Crush Your Work Chaos

How do you do all of the work that is mounting on your desk when you don't have a full team or lack the resources to be able to assemble a team?    Many lawyers often say to themselves, “I have too much and I'm not yet at the place where I can hire.” Almost invariably that's the wrong assumption, but that's the belief system at that moment.    So I wanted to share with you all a four-quadrant system that I created that helps people to understand how to put their work in the proper context while they have too much work to do.   Tune in to learn more!   In this episode we discuss: Using a Four Quadrant System that helps you understand how to put your work in the proper context. Identifying which category each task belongs in by asking yourself 3 key questions. How to find the easiest method of organization to avoid dealing with overwhelm. Getting into the habit of training yourself how to use the four-quadrant system. Making sure that time to complete urgent, Category A items is added to your calendar. Building in buffer time on your calendar to take a deep breath, eat and relax a moment. Allison Bio:   Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law.    Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.  In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.   In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers.  She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.  Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms.  Contact Info:   www.LawFirmMentor.net Contact Law Firm Mentor: Scheduler: https://meetme.so/LawFirmMentor     Snippets   00: 30: 23 (31 Seconds)  I'm a big proponent of cleaning off our desk at the end of the week so that all that stuff that's accumulated can go into the categorization, and do so in a way that gives you a release of the stress of, Oh my God, look at all this stuff on my desk. But, assuming that you didn't even get to it, the category D stuff is probably not going to blow up, even if you didn't look at it, right? The category A stuff is the stuff you always want to be, you know, in sight and in mind. Right? You don't want to be stressed over it, but you do want to be aware of it.