Too busy to innovate your legal business? How business mindset and legal design support creative lawyering with time freedom and a 4-day workweek [Ep. 3]

Legal Innovation Simplified: Design Thinking Tools and Legal Design for Future Law

Are you caught in the grind of endless billable hours, back-to-back meetings, and a never-ending to-do list? Simply no time to innovate? This episode is for you.

I’m sharing five secrets I’ve discovered during my journey to a four-day workweek—secrets that go beyond productivity hacks. These are mindset shifts that will transform how you approach your work and life, creating space for creativity, energy, and meaningful progress.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

1. Why idle time isn’t unproductive—it’s essential for innovation.
2. How to define your “minimum viable work” and start saying no to the rest.
3. The power of prioritizing deep work and organizing your day into productive categories.
4. The importance of creating stillness to invite clarity and focus.
5. How checking your screen time is the easy start to reclaiming your day.

We also explore:

• The myths behind billable hours and why energy—not time—delivers true value.
• Lessons from groundbreaking four-day workweek experiments in the UK and Iceland.
• Why joy and excitement should guide your decisions, not the cult of busyness.

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Studies on four-day workweeks in Iceland and UK.

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