You need to protect your valuable time from people who want to steal it. Develop strategies for saying no more often, and for filtering out useless information masquerading as news - do this for your sake and the sake of your clients. Show Notes

• Free To Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, by Michael Hyatt (see pages 91 - 113)
• LFA Episode 190: Text Automation for Lawyers (with TextExpander)
• TextExpander (the best tool to automate saying no to common requests)
• Axios (important news & expert analysis by award-winning journalists)
• Morning Brew (all the key daily news that you can read in 5 minutes or less)
• Instapaper (save articles for free, even ones that are behind a registration wall, and read them later)
• Pocket (free, just like Instapaper)
• Feedly (free RSS reader, with paid version that includes some A.I. features)
• What is RSS? Here's a helpful article.

General Resources

• The 80/20 Principle (my email newsletter)
• The 5 Pillars of a Tech-Powered Law Practice
• The Inner Circle (an online community for law firm owners)

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