{"id":3012,"date":"2011-09-20T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2011-09-21T05:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T09:38:29","slug":"checklist-for-my-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2011\/09\/20\/checklist-for-my-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Checklist for My Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From last Friday\u2019s weekly <a title=\"Boston University Dean of Students - Coffee &amp; Conversation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2011\/09\/16\/coffee-conversation-if-it-makes-you-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coffee &amp; Convo<\/a> session:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/09\/Screen-Shot-2011-09-19-at-11.43.12-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3013\" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-09-19 at 11.43.12 AM\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/09\/Screen-Shot-2011-09-19-at-11.43.12-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2011-09-19 at 11.43.12 AM\" width=\"307\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the game plan \u2013 from the wisdom of the folks in the room \u2013 that I\u2019ll use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ll make a choice, each day, to be happy;<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m going for experiences over plain-old stuff;<\/li>\n<li>hanging with family and friends matters;<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m willing to see life as full of pleasant surprises \u2013 I\u2019m going with the surprises when they summon me;<\/li>\n<li>Coffee is an experience;<\/li>\n<li>make time;<\/li>\n<li>Fridays 3-5 p.m. is an optimal time;<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ll do my best to get in a resource position that can max my chances to be happy; and<\/li>\n<li>know that I\u2019m worthy of happiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The important point of conversation \u2013 especially our weekly coffee and chat \u2013 is to use your metaphorical, contextual, aesthetic, big picture brain to make functional, logical, analytical, literal action plans.<\/p>\n<p>All the best in your pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n<p>By the way: this game plan is best enjoyed with Mates of State&#8217;s <em>You are Free<\/em> &#8212; particularly, the Mae Shi remix version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From last Friday\u2019s weekly Coffee &amp; Convo session: Here\u2019s the game plan \u2013 from the wisdom of the folks in the room \u2013 that I\u2019ll use: I\u2019ll make a choice, each day, to be happy; I\u2019m going for experiences over plain-old stuff; hanging with family and friends matters; I\u2019m willing to see life as full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}