Your well-being matters. It's strongly correlated with professional success, higher cognitive ability, better memory, improved executive functioning, physical health and longevity, better relationships, lower divorce rates, resilience to stress, better perceptions of work / life balance, and a lower risk of developing the mental health and substance use concerns that too many of our colleagues face.
Well-being will look a little different for each of us, but it includes our attention to the following six life dimensions:
Well-being will look a little different for each of us, but it includes our attention to the following six life dimensions:
Taking time for self-assessment is important to building and maintaining well-being. Doing so helps you to slow down, identify, and pay attention to your own needs. To get started click on the link below to access different self-assessments.
Workplace Well-Being
Legal employers play a vital role in the state of lawyer well-being. Certainly, strategies aimed at the individual lawyer are important. But policies, cultures, and practices of our legal employers must also be addressed because they have enormous influence on the state of lawyer health and well-being.