After handling his wife’s immigration papers, lawyer Erick Widman had a fire lit in himself to niche down to family and business immigration. His law firm is now 10 years old, with all the ups and downs that come from being an entrepreneur and owning your own firm.

One of the biggest challenges Erick faced was being unprepared for how difficult it would be to handle employees. And all of the coaching you have to do for the employees - and so Erick became a high performance coach.

How do you manage people all day? How do you manage all the different personalities you work with? How do you come to grips with that (especially if you are an entrepreneur)?

That and more is what we are talking about today. Let’s listen in.

02:00 Meet Erick where he was a part of the minority group in school, was an exchange student in Japan, and taught law in Hungary where he met his now wife.

4:25 Experiences from Japan helping Erick become a better business owner.

5:19 What's your favorite part of owning a law firm? And what’s the least favorite part of owning your own law firm?

8:00 Managing people on your team better even when you are an introvert …

9:54 Becoming a high performance coach started when Erick realized I don’t need to play the same game that other people are.

12:15 Reading the happiness advantage — training yourself to find the positive - becoming the positive person in your life and making the positive things come out!

13:35 What has been the biggest challenge for you when running your own firm?

15:28 What most immigration lawyers don't know about marketing and being an entrepreneur.

18:02 Talking about vision - have you done the vision work for your firm? Have you placed value on that?

Jim’s Hack: Read the book by Napoleon Hill “Think and Grow Rich'' - it’s a little woo woo and a little outdated but the central message makes it worth it. — and that message is — That anything that we want to have happened has to begin as a thought and that the only changes that happened in the world happened as a thought and our job is to keep that thought alive until it manifests itself into an action.