Suppose you are a lawyer at a high-powered practice and you are working to make partner or getting your midyear bonus and you get hit with the news that your ailing parent needs medical care and might be terminal, a friend wants you to attend a wedding, you have clients wanting a face-to-face meeting in a different state, and your daughter’s graduation is right in the middle of all of it. You are a little freaked out as to how you will get it all done. All of this just seems to be happening to you. Such pressure will probably cause you to become defocused so that nothing seems to be getting done. Loose ends everywhere! What do you do?
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