18/09/2025
Last week I was invited to speak at the Inside Practice Conference in London. A brilliant, insightful day, despite the added inconvenience of the tube strikes!
A big focus was on health and wellbeing and how to manage stress when working long hours and to tight deadlines. There was plenty of talking, but my sessions were less about words and more about actions, focusing on my mantra – little and often.
I had everyone off their seats, as we attempted skills to do the sock and shoe test. If you don’t know what that is, then check out my Instagram grid where you’ll find me doing it.
These law firms may be well equipped with gyms on site and almost instant access to GPs and other medical professionals, but I’m more about prevention than cure.
“Don’t wait until the end of the day to go to the gym”, I told them.
“Don’t wait until there’s a problem to see the GP.” It’s much better to take small moments throughout the day to enhance wellbeing.
Interestingly, a key point of the day was about working hours.
The takeaway was this: clients are looking at successful outcomes, not the number of hours put in. They may have been talking about legal work, but it’s the same for wellbeing. Making small efforts regularly to better your health is far better than putting a huge amount of effort in at the gym once or twice a week. Build time in your day, get outside as much as possible and as early as possible, step away from screens and fuel your body in the way it needs and your present day and future self will thank you.
