Latest Revision: 6/21/2024
In Part II of Orienting Your Vision, this author examined seven potentially “deadly” visions that can orient one’s forensic career towards a path of self-destruction and wrongful public service. While you may not be consciously deciding to make these visions your compass’s north, you should take care to truthfully examine the underlying motivations of your vision to minimize these qualities, especially if you work in forensics or forensic leadership.
Self-inquiry and fundamental, life-altering mindset changes such as these are difficult and take time. Practically, you might not be able to address every single maladaptive aspect of vision in your own career. What you can do, however, is to start small:
Take 15 minutes once a day/week/month to write out what you think your passions and strengths are (or maybe areas you want to improve).
Then, write a few small practical steps that would help you work towards that vision in your life or in your work. Take care that these steps do not depend on other people to accomplish.
Keep your list close and make a consistent mental note of your progress. It will help you reset your thinking in times of uncertainty or challenge.
It can help to evaluate if there are already any systems in place that you can contribute towards. Or, if you see a gap in the currently available systems, is there anything you can do to improve that system? Can you establish a new system at your laboratory that will help you and your teams to reach and sustain a certain objective?