We’re told that it takes time (years) to build a successful law practice. It takes time to learn what to do and time to do it.
It takes time to develop your writing and speaking skills, negotiating skills, and people skills. It takes time to bring in good clients, keep them happy, returning, and referring. It takes time to find good business contacts and build relationships with them. It takes time to build your reputation, make your mistakes, recover, and grow.
And while you can’t shortcut the entire process, there are things you can do to speed things up.
The first thing you can do is to try everything. Until you do, you really don’t know what will or won’t work for you, what you will be good at, or where what you do today might lead you tomorrow.
Try lots of things, including (or maybe especially) things that take you out of your comfort zone, things you swore you’d never do, or do again.
You might find that, with practice, some things you’re bad at or hate you come to love. Or prove to yourself that you shouldn’t waste time on some things, giving you more time to double down on others.
The second thing you can do is meet a lot of people. Instead of trying to do everything yourself, find people who already do it and learn from them or hire them or read their books and do what they did.
Buy a lot of lunches. Not forever. Just enough to meet a few people who inspire you or introduce you to other people you need to know.
We’re in a people business. Go meet more people.
The third thing you can do to speed up your success is perhaps the most important.
Move faster.
When you move slowly, you often waste time, over-analyze, procrastinate, and lose confidence, because things are taking too long. When you move quickly, you don’t have time to dwell on what’s not working, you’re busy doing other things that are.
When you move quickly, you compress time and develop momentum. Small wins lead to bigger wins and they happen more often. Your growth accelerates and compounds and you accomplish in months what might otherwise have taken years.
It’s easier to build your practice quickly than to do it slowly. Especially when you try lots of things and meet lots of people.
If you want to take a quantum leap in the growth of your practice, here’s how
