Comments on: The Single Step

By: adrian

adrian — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:40:51 +0000

@Jennerosity:
Thanks for your comment and mentioning The Happiness Project. Looks like I have lots of reading and catching up to do! Keep me posted with how your writing pursuits go – I’ll make a point of checking in your blog as I can too!

@princess #3:
I think those two quotes go well together. I’d also be inclined to say that doing what you love more of the time, or getting more of your fill of pie, will lead you to being happier.

Time is a very interesting variable in all this, and I was just thinking the other night about how the lack of time can often seem like a barrier – you can’t always do the things you love because sometimes there isn’t enough time. But what if you could shift the balance of time? You can’t change the number of hours in a day, but you can change what you do during those hours.

This line of thought has led to a new and related goal now: I want to increase the productivity of my productive hours so that I have more time to do the things I want to do.

That’s basically it! It’s not rocket science, it’s almost so simple I think most of us overlook it. And it’s not a new concept – Tim Ferriss writes about it in The 4-Hour Work Week. It sounds obvious when I hear it again, but it really means something to me now.

By: princess #3

princess #3 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:02 +0000

I read not too long ago “Find what you love and do it. This is a lot harder than it sounds.” Most people aren’t lucky enough to do what they love for a living. Or maybe when you do what you love for a living you no longer love it. Doing what you love when you can, during or outside of work, I feel is a big factor of happiness.

Something else I read is “being happy is a sum of parts” – like a pie. A whole pie of happiness might be family (1 pc), friendships (2 pcs), personal achievement (1 pc), creative outlet (1 pc), travel (1 pc), health (2 pcs). Decide on the pieces you need to be happy. Waning happiness = missing piece/s.

What do you think?

By: Jennerosity

Jennerosity — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:59:04 +0000

Think it’s awesome that your starting to really examine your life and happiness. It’s so much better to be going through life understanding the why of what you’re doing and being, instead of just kind of stumbling through it. It’s something I started thinking about more when I stumbled over Gretchin Rubin’s blog/book The Happiness Project. She’s got some very thoughtful things to say on the subject.

I’m also starting a new journey of sorts as I’ve just finished setting up a pen name for my writing pursuits. Trying to get one of my manuscripts finished by September so I’ll be busy. But, I’ll add your blog to Google Reader so I can still follow along.