Comments on: How to be Happy: 7 Lessons from Deconstructing Nirvana

By: When Affirmations Go Wrong : CountWordula - Hacking Knowledge

When Affirmations Go Wrong : CountWordula - Hacking Knowledge — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:20:30 +0000

[...] Either that or move to Toronto immediately, which isn’t working just yet, as I mentioned in How to be happy. [...]

By: rdash

rdash — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:54:03 +0000

Update: Kitchener doesn’t seem to be happening either. However, the good news is that I have a good chance at getting a full-time blogging gig with a small online publisher, and might get admitted into film school in Jan 2009. I’ve already talked to the admissions rep, and she seems to think I’ve got a good chance.

Filmmaking is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time, and everything I’ve done since was an effort to raise capital. Except that over the past 16 years, I almost forgot why I was doing whatever I was doing.

The full-time blogging gig will require me to be in Toronto as well, so I now have two reasons to impel me to move to Toronto as soon as is convenient.

By: rdash

rdash — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:40:11 +0000

@Chris: Absolutely. I couldn’t have gotten by the last five years without my family’s help.

@Pete: Thanks That’s exactly what I thought. Most people are embarrassed to write stuff like this, but unless you’ve lived some things and give concrete examples, it’s hard to talk about them.

By: ThePete

ThePete — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:17:57 +0000

Good post, man–it’s these kinds of personal stories that really make blogs worthwhile. What is happening to you just might be happening to someone else, too–and your lessons learned just might help them.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:19:22 +0000

I would add #8 friends and family can be as important (or more) than “stuff”. As nice as a flashy computer, nice car, big screen tv can be, when you are down they can’t lift you up like a kind soul can