PHYSICAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS

This comprehensive physical health training is designed to support attorneys in becoming self-actualized, resilient and inspiring team members, managers and leaders of law offices. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses in maintaining their physical health. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their attention and focus, posture, cravings, chronic illnesses and overall physical performance in the duties of a busy attorney. The course covers how to manage sleep, weight, exercise, diet, and aging.

COURSE INCLUDES:

1. 2 Hour Video Instruction
2. 30-minute coaching session
3. Documents and Worksheets

SCHEDULE:

TIME	SUBJECT	PARTICIPANT TASKS
0:00 – 5:00	Overview of Program Outline – use this for webpage	Slides
3:00 – 10:00	Introduction of Attorney Health and personal story of how overweight, food and alcohol addiction, sleep apnea, back pain, improved by yoga mindfulness, hiking, Chinese medicine, chiropractic helped me as an attorney. Longevity and Viability
10:00 – 15:00	Overview of course logistics and topics – quizzes, short answer, certification, email support, chat support for tech issues? Take what works and leave the rest	Participant Lists Goals for Training
15:00 – 35:00	Big Picture Overview of Attorney mental and physical health crisis. Recursive Nature of Organization and Role of Executive and Management functions of Beers Model, Positive Intelligence research, Maslow, Wheel Teaching, The 8th Habit, work environments for healthy living, longevity	Slides
30:00 – 40:00	Family History for Health, stress and chronic health problems, Eastern Medicine vs Western Medicine	DOC 1: Family History DOC 2: Chinese Medicine DOC 3: Aryuveda
40:00 – 50:00	The use of DISC personality style assessment in maintaining your physical  health and personal growth, professional alignment, review of assessment, take assessment – regular and work of leaders. Know Thyself	Assessment Quiz #1 : Basic DISC DOC 3: Sample Free DISC assessment results – 123 Test DOC 4: Sample Paid DISC assessment results – WILEY
50:00 – 60:00	Review of participant’s DISC personality style assessment and opposite personality style and impacts on physical health	Assessment Quiz #2: Participant describes 3 insights
60:00 – 65:00	5 MINUTE BREAK
65:00 – 85:00	Personal Health Assessment and targets for healing, using doctors and insurance for healing, other resources, physical examinations and tests to take, use of herbs and supplements	DOC: 3 Health Assessment DOC 4: Insurance agent questions DOC 5: List of tests for chronic illness DOC 6: Goals of a physical examination Assessment Quiz #3 – list of physical challenges and healers
85:00 – 95:00	Healing Back Pain – Dr. Sarno and stored emotional The body bears the burden – stored trauma in the body, Yoga and TRE	DOC 7: Vegas Curve DOC 8: Neroscience of Trauma and physical symptoms   Assessment Quiz #8 Participant describes value and challenge of getting support to create ongoing physical health and fitness.
95:00 – 115:00	Weight gain, trauma, intermittent fasting, low carb diet, calorie counting and exercise	DOC 9: Overweight and maintaining healthy weight DOC 10: Substance Abuse self assessment
115:00 – 120:00	Addiction to alcohol, substance abuse both legal and illegal	DOC 11: Operations Manual DOC 12: Healing craving and addiction
120:00 – 125:00	Conclusion	Assessment Quiz #9 Course Evaluation DOC TO EMAIL TO PARTICIPANT AND EMAIL TO STATE BAR: Issue Certificate of Attendance

Unlike other professions, attorneys have critical ethical duties and burdensome competency requirements that demand high levels of personal performance, year in and year out. Failure to properly perform any of these broad mandates can lead to complaints, public reprimands, suspension and debarment. Physical health is a spectrum of wellness, from waking up feeling good every day and following appropriate guidelines for wellness, all the way to experiencing morbid obesity, chronic pain and catastrophic illness that require Attorneys to seek medical intervention and time away from work.

State bar associations across the country are advocating for law firms to begin changing their company cultures in order to support lawyers in maintaining their wellness. As an Attorney, your challenge is to create a workplace for yourself, and others, to stay in the flow of excellence every day. You also need to prepare for getting sick and taking time off of work. It is obvious that most attorneys cannot meet these challenges. When compared to the general population, attorneys don’t take holidays and sick days… they do the opposite, and overwork. Attorneys suffer from twice as many incidents of substance use disorders and mental health issues. All of these chronic stressors manifest in illness and disease.

Law firms’ reputations suffer when their attorneys burn out. Clients lose valuable rights and are forever precluded from legal process when their attorney gets sick, drops the ball and commits malpractice. Every Attorney must first self-assess their physical health, and then get support for their condition.  Leaders need to learn how to have difficult, emotional conversations with other attorneys that have physical health challenges.

It is no surprise that Attorneys report high levels of physical health challenges. Who has time to eat right, work out, sleep properly and relax, given the daunting task of performing well in a wide range of difficult mandatory duties, that include the following:

• Competence (Model Rules 1.1)
  • A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client.
  • Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation.
• Diligence (Model Rules 1.3)
  • A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.
• Communication (Model Rules 1.4)
  • A lawyer shall obtain informed consent
  • A lawyer shall keep client reasonably informed.
  • A lawyer shall comply with reasonable requests for information.
• Conflict of Interest (Model Rules 1.7)
  • Representation must not be limited by a personal interest of the attorney
• Safekeeping Property (Model Rules 1.15)
  • Duty of trustee for client monies
• Declining or Terminating Representation (Model Rules 1.16)
  • When a lawyer’s health (mental or physical) interferes with their ability to practice effectively, they have an ethical duty to step down.
• Expediting Litigation (Model Rules 3.2)
  • A lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to expedite litigation
    consistent with the interests of the client
• Misconduct (Model Rules 8.4)
  • Lawyers cannot Commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the honesty,
    trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer. This includes DUI and Illegal drug use or possession

Many Attorneys avoid assessing and taking action to protect their physical health and wellness because of the extra demands and time required to live a healthy life. However, there is a systematic way to learn about expanding your physical health and wellness that, when mastered, make it easier to handle the responsibility. In order to have a long and truly successful career as an Attorney in the law, you have to first understand your personality and your relationship to maintaining your physical health. You have to know your strengths and weaknesses in the areas of diet, exercise, sleep, and weight. You have to create a wellness program that works for you, and will not lead to accidental injury, illness, or more stress. Without this critical data, you cannot master the fundamentals areas of improving and maintaining your physical health that is mandatory to becoming a successful Attorney.

All attorneys have blind spots, so it is normal to feel frustrated and struggle in mastering physical health practices. It is painful, humiliating and inevitable to make mistakes that impair your physical health. What is worse is to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, as your physical health diminishes. You will need to try many different practices until you discover ones that support you where you are right now. Then, as your physical health changes for the better, you will want to re-discover other practices that will keep your wellness stable and improving over time.

Research in the areas of neuroscience, psychology, organizational development and economics prove that learning DISC is an excellent way to start your journey of self-assessment and discovering appropriate physical health support as a busy Attorney.  Positive Intelligence is another tool that is extremely popular with busy professionals that want to achieve meaningful transformation of their work life balance, and commitment to their physical wellness.

After your training, schedule your 30-minute Coaching Session to clarify your goals, identify your challenges in achieving your goals, and brainstorm strategies to overcome your challenges.

REQUIRED PRE-WORK (10 minutes)

We require you take a DISC personality style assessment before this training. You can take a basic free test DISC assessment at 123 Test https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/ or contact us for the Wiley DiSC assessment (+- $100)

Take Free Positive Intelligence assessment

RECOMMENED READING (Audiobooks are available on Spotify):

Healing Back Pain

Positive Intelligence

Shake it off Naturally

The Body Bears the Burden

ABOUT ACTUALIS ATTORNEY WELLNESS AND MARK C. DALY:

Even before becoming an attorney in 1999, I learned how to develop my personal and professional skills by attending workshops, educating myself, getting peer support, and hiring professional coaches and therapists. I learned how to bring out the best in myself, my companies and the teams I supervised in my legal career. Over the past 20 years I have become a certified professional coach and a certified Shadow Work ® coach and facilitator. I am a Registered, Non-Licensed Therapist in the State of Colorado with strict duties of confidentiality, which is very necessary when working with attorneys! I have taken courses in Voice Dialogue, Gottman Marriage Counseling and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I have used these skills to coach executives, managing and associate attorneys, as well as support staff, to become more satisfied and successful practicing law. Since 2004 I have been a registered CLE provider. I have coached and mentored dozens of attorneys in law office start up, practice management, and immigration law fundamentals. I have been an immigration attorney for 26 years. In the beginning, I struggled financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I have been married, divorced, and finally remarried in 2010. As a single dad dealing with a traumatic divorce, I know what it is like to mismanage a law office, break rules of competence and act unethically. Through it all, I have managed to learn from my mistakes and gain mastery in the 5 fundamental areas of attorney wellness – Leadership, Management, Finances, Mental Health and Physical Health. I twice started, built up, managed, and sold successful law practices in Nashville and Denver, and now I am financially free. I maintain excellent and loving relationships with my wife and grown children, and I have a great relationship with my extended family and even my ex-wife! In 2025, my wife and I went on a one-year sabbatical around the world to learn, grow, relax and enjoy life. I gained a better understanding of myself, and decided to become an inactive attorney and launch Actualis Attorney Wellness. My primary aim is to help attorneys feel good, enjoy life, and do the right thing.