Pre-Prepared Legal Documents – Why "Canned" Documents can get you canned

December 17, 2022 0 Comments

Watching the commercials on television late at night can be a great education for the estate planning attorney. It seems every channel has a pre-made or “canned” mailer of legal documents to “save you the cost of hiring a high-priced lawyer”: “Save thousands of dollars with our easy-to-fill form.” (insert type of document: wills, trusts, …

Bosses need the gift of better leadership in meetings

December 16, 2022 0 Comments

Studies show that millions of meetings are held each day in the United States and that thousands of dollars are spent per meeting hour when meetings include multiple executives as attendees. Are all these meetings a business investment or a waste of time? Unfortunately, many of those same studies indicate that managers who attended meetings …

The work-life balance conundrum

December 15, 2022 0 Comments

I LOVE the following quote. It resonated within me again recently. Like all insightful wisdom quotes, it oozes truth and speaks to all of our lives. The only sad thing to me is that some just don’t get it. Here it goes: “Forget about trying to achieve the mythical work/life balance. Identify your priorities and …

Snakes Roosters and Pigs – Oh My – Symbols Themes and Teachings of the Tibetan Wheel of Life

December 14, 2022 0 Comments

Every day we turn the wheel of life and its samsaric mechanisms. Like cogs in an illusory clock, we blindly revolve around your karmic center as we move from one realm of life to the next. This is the fundamental teaching described within the Buddhist paradigm known as the ‘Wheel of Life’. Within its radii …

High School Track And Field – Yes, There Is Phenom Jordan Hasay, Here Are The Best Preps From The Rest

December 13, 2022 0 Comments

It’s good to be Jordan Hasay from Mission Prep in San Luis Obispo (CA). He captured the heart of America’s running community competing as a junior at the US Olympic Trials last year, failing to make the 2008 Beijing Olympics team, but setting a national age-group record and high school by clocking 4:14.50 in a …

What are SMART goals?

December 12, 2022 0 Comments

Each year, many work teams set goals for the coming year, and leadership teams determine their goals for their organizations. During the goal and objective setting process, the term SMART goal is often used without giving much thought to what it can mean as an overall work plan. SMART goals are a way to not …

3 Lawsuits Changing the Landscape of California Employment Law

December 11, 2022 0 Comments

Labor lawsuits have soared to their highest peak in history, with nearly 100,000 claim filings in 2010, according to the EEOC. Incredibly, that number reflects a 31% increase from just 4 years ago! There is an endless stream of new court cases and decisions changing the employment landscape, making it extremely difficult for employers to …

Will flattery get you everywhere, or did it go nowhere?

December 10, 2022 0 Comments

It’s everywhere. We see it when people try to be nice to each other and we experience it when someone tries to sell us something. It’s flattery. If you’re like me, you may have grown up thinking of it as a good thing, which captured the gist of the saying, “Well, flattery won’t get you …

Edison as a patent troll, or where is California headed for stem cell research?

December 9, 2022 0 Comments

In March 2006, there was renewed concern about the patent system, manifested not only in the discussion of NTP v. The RIM (BlackBerry) case, which settled for $612.5 million, but also about the fate of the use of injunctive relief in patent infringement cases, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in eBay v. MercExchange. …

Wisdom Living’s 7 Core Core Values

December 8, 2022 0 Comments

Can we formulate life? Can we invent or discover a system that can guide us? Nothing is perfect. Only God is perfect. But we can venture within Wisdom and finds in it an ideal ally and companion for life. I am proposing that there are seven (7) key life virtues (“core values”) that can guide …