yesterday I was in the WRC the Workplace Relations Commission in Ballsbridge in
Lansdowne house in Ballsbridge and tomorrow I'm there again and people are
surprised particularly clients of mine are surprised when they hear that I park
in Smithfield and walk over to Ballsbridge for the three reasons why I
do that and I think you might be able to you might consider my my reasoning
behind this and you might be able to pull it into effect in your own life and
consider but three reasons why I walk to the WRC in Lansdowne house from
smithfield are firstly exercise a big fan of getting exercise every
opportunity that I can get it and obviously I am a solicitor I sit on my
arse all day every day from how 6:00 in the morning on to five o'clock and
evening it's a sedentary unhealthy lifestyle
from that perspective and every opportunity that I can get to take some
exercise and walk is an opportunity that I'm going to take with both hands so the
walk across which only takes about 45 minutes it's very very useful in that
regard the second reason though is in my mind
as I walk across I can review the case so I'm either acting for an employer or
acting for an employee but regardless I can review in my own mind with some
degree of clarity the arguments for and against the weaknesses and strengths on
both sides of the argument and I can rehearse them in my mind and I can
consider in my mind as well sort of evidence that I'm going to try to adduce
and the types of questioning I need to do both of my own client and of the
other the other party so preparation for the case 45 minutes rather than stuck
and in traffic or being stuck in public transport it's very very useful to be
able to walk across especially if it's a nice day and go through and rehearse in
my mind what the strengths the weaknesses of the case
the third reason is very very important and very very enjoyable reason is the
audible the audible app from Amazon allows me to read or listen to rather
audiobooks I discovered within January or February of this year I absolutely
loved the audiobooks I listened to a lot of Dickens and listened to a lot of
self-help books and when you listen to a book by Dickens who I'm a huge fan of
such as Bleak House or Oliver Twist or hard times or Great Expectations
when you hear that book read with different accents and so on and so forth
by rather train BBC actor it gives a whole new life it breeds a whole new
life into the novel and it's tremendous so I listen to other books obviously as
well I listen to all of Dickens I listen to self-help books I'm listening to one
there at the moment called the chimp paradox and it's about how your brain
works it's written by an English guy psychiatrist and a lecturer and he
basically explains in plain language how the human brain works and it's very very
useful because it allows you when I was me to get control of my inner chimp
basically and not overreact a various situations and to think more rationally
and as a human rather than as a chimp it's fascinating book but again it's
just an example of the types of booking books you can guess on Amazon with the
audible I listen to her on my phone but I'm a huge fan obviously and heeds
believer as well in working there as efficiently as I possibly can and
basically in your daily life you want to be spending two things a lot of the time
one time and two money and if I could spend my time efficiently and the 45
minutes right here to walk from Smithfield's of Anna's own house in my
view because I put that time to very very good effect and because of the
three benefits of just our client I view it as being a very very efficient use of
my resources I hope you find it useful you might consider it in your own life
and certainly the audio book situation the order but I strongly
recommend us but that's why I walk from X midfield to WRC and people sitting in
stone that burst there is sort of some rational thinking behind my decision
hope you find this useful