Steps to Create Your Vision

1. Determine your core values (three to five values that are important in your life such as excellence, service, family).

2. Describe the kind of person you want to be. How do you want to be with your family, friends, colleagues, community, and with yourself? How do you want to be with your clients and the client community?

3. Describe the work that you want to do:

• What are your interests?
• What would you like to learn or develop?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• What areas of the law intrigue you?
• What impact would you like your work to have?
• What long-term value would your work have for your clients?
• What long-term value would your work have for the client community?

4. What quality or attribute makes you unique?

5. Write your vision—your desired future. To make your vision more powerful, state it in the present tense as though it has already happened.

Source: Adapted from Chuck Kormanski, Values, Visions, and Missions: Using Personal Strategic Planning, in 1 The 1995 Annual Training 59 (J. William Pfeiffer ed., 1995), and Dennis T. Jaffe & Cynthia D. Scott, Career Development for Empowerment in a Changing Work World, in New Directions in Career Planning and the Workplace 33 (Jean M. Hummerow ed., 2000).

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