Yes, it’s the cliche Thanksgiving post. <\/p>\n
As you can see by the total lack of posts this month, it’s been a busy month for me, at work, in class, and even socially (four different out-of-towners visited last week although I only managed to see three). I’m taking a quick break up in Boston for Thanksgiving before I settle into the end-of-term crunch (master’s project, group term project, take-home final, in-class final, master’s project presentation over the next four weeks). <\/p>\n
But I do want to take the time to be thankful for all that I have.<\/p>\n
I was reading Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow<\/a> on the bus ride last night, and one thing that is apparent is how lucky I am to have all of my basic needs from Maslow’s hierarchy<\/a> satisfied.<\/p>\n I’ve got a roof over my head, a steady salary, and enough savings to do pretty much whatever I want.<\/p>\n I’ve got great friends and family who support me throughout all of my endeavors (more on that later).<\/p>\n It’s only because I have all of those basic needs satisfied that I can spend time trying to figure out what I really want to do, or who I really want to be, and all of the other self-actualization needs at the top of Maslow’s pyramid. So my angst about what to do with my life is really a testament to having everything else in place, and I am very thankful for that. <\/p>\n I also am constantly gratified that I have the friends and family that I do, who do amazing things and inspire me to do more myself:<\/p>\n And those are just the people I’ve talked to in the past week. I go on and on about my friends because they are truly fantastic. I believe that you can judge people by the company they keep, and I am honored that my friends choose to spend time with me. I would not be the person I am without them.<\/p>\n I’m also thankful to anybody that is reading this post. This blog has been a great place for me to express and organize my thoughts, and I hope that I can continue to deliver posts that are interesting and keep you coming back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, it’s the cliche Thanksgiving post. As you can see by the total lack of posts this month, it’s been a busy month for me, at work, in class, and even socially (four different out-of-towners visited last week although I only managed to see three). I’m taking a quick break up in Boston for Thanksgiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n