Identify a working hypothesis to answer the question: What makes a life good? Remember that this is a working hypothesis. You don’t have to have the “right” answer, you just have to have an answer that leads you in the right direction.
STEP 1
Use these categories and write 1-3 sentences about what would make a life feel good in each of these categories:
Theme of Your Life
Family/Friends
Work/Career
Finances/Money
Health/Fitness
Free Time
STEP 2
How can your experience at college best be used to support your unique vision of a good life?
Again, use the following categories and write 1-3 sentences on how your college experience will lead you towards the life you want to be living.
Theme of Your College Experience
Family/Friends
Work/Career
Finances/Money
Health/Fitness
Free Time
STEP 3
Identify the habits and strategies you will employ in order to turn your college experience into an expression of your good life. Write down 1-3 skills or habits in the following categories that will be necessary to turn your college experience into a good life.
Primary habit/skill
Family/Friends
Work/Career
Finances/Money
Health/Fitness
Free Time
Revisit this list weekly. Are you on track? Do you need to revise the list. It is a living document that you can add to and take away from. Once a year determine how successful you were at staying on track. What got in the way? What will you do differently next year?