A Much Needed Change

ISM this week was my first priority. I had spent time focusing on my voicemail and the phone call script and all the necessities that were needed for the week, but I had forgotten my research assessment. By the time I had remembered, I had felt very panicked. What was the image that I was creating for ISM? This was the second or third time I had turned in something late, and it was very disappointing for me to have made that mistake, especially considering how I had worked on my voicemail and the phone call script and was prepared ahead of time. It had felt like a step back from where I should and can be. After fretting about that specific issue, I had decided deciding to look at an actual medical law case in order to understand how it would work. When working through the case and analyzing the arguments and how it worked out for the plaintiffs side, I realized how different cases can be and how the witness's testimony can be paramount for a case's success in some cases. In the specific case that I researched, towards the end, the testimony of the plaintiffs expert proved to be the deathblow of the case. After working on that assignment and finishing it, I was in a much better mind space and I realized that I will make mistakes throughout this journey, and it's my response to that failure that defines me to my colleagues than the fact that I was unreliable at first. Consistency is the biggest issue for me that I will aim to work on. I will work on consistency by making micro goals, with week long goals combined with month long and year long goals. For this week, I aim to spend at least 3 hours a day to ensure productivity and sufficient progress, and at the end of the month, I aim to have already have called all of my potential mentors and to have an A in my two problem classes. At the end of the year, I aim to have cultivated a professional and successful image and a stronger work ethic.