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By Ike Lasater and Julie Stiles At one level of dealing with the issue of overwhelm is just getting organized and creating a system to handle the “incoming” of things to do. Both of us are using some version of David Allen’s system known as Getting Things Done (GTD) for this aspect of handling overwhelm. [...]

By Ike Lasater and Julie Stiles Ever sat in front of your email or task management program and felt overwhelmed? Too many emails, too much to do…where do you start? Both of us have been confronting this issue recently. I (Ike) mostly find it when I go to my email. When I’m in a certain [...]

With my past experience as a trial lawyer and current work with mediation, one might think that it was a simple, straightforward transition—from lawyer to mediator. In reality, when I withdrew from the practice of law at the end of 1999, mediation was not at all what I thought I might spend my time doing. [...]