Systems are the key to Freedom!!

Systems, they are the key to helping you to begin to free yourself from the bondage that is your single member or very small law firm. Before you can begin to learn how to implement time saving, money saving systems, we first have to agree what a system actually is.

I ran across this very powerful acronym recently.

Save
Yourself
Stress
Time
Energy
Money

Think about that. Isn't that what you already know? Isn't that what I've been harping about? Saving yourself stress, time, energy and money sounds great doesn't it? So what processes in your office can you create a system for in order to save yourself stress, time, energy and money? I can answer lots of questions but not knowing all of my readers personally, I can't answer this question for each of you. Focus on those tasks that you do on a daily basis that don't really require you to do them. For one week keep a daily log of what you do all day. When you analyze that log after the end of the week you will be amazed at the amount of very low values tasks you spend the bulk of your time doing.

Even if it takes you twice as long to document, explain and describe a system for some task that you do on a regular basis, it will begin to save you time almost immediately once you are able to delegate this task to someone else. Ideally someone who doesn't cost as much as you do! Even if you don't have anyone currently working for you in your office, you should begin to document and organize systems in your office. This will accomplish two things. First, it will keep you from having to reinvent the wheel and figure out how to do certain tasks which you perform regularly but infrequently and second it will make training your staff much simpler when the time comes.