I’m so happy this morning …

The Today Show was on the TV while I was making my lunch, and I happened to see two women, editors from Cosmopolitan magazine, sit with Ann Curry and talk about “Happiness Myths.”

I quickly grabbed a legal pad to take notes. I didn’t get it all, but check out some of these tips for finding happiness that flashed on the bottom of the screen while the women were talking:

• Money and possessions don’t necessarily make you happy.

• Money problems can lead to divorce.

• Focus on all moments of your life.

• Acting upbeat doesn’t mean happiness.

• If you have a serious issue, deal with it.

• A lack of goals can cause pressure and anxiety.

• Never, never be inauthentic.

There were others but I couldn’t take notes fast enough. I went to the Today Show website, but they didn’t have anything on “Happiness Myths” so that I could read the rest of them. That doesn’t make me so happy.

But — Wow! — am I’m so happy I saw that segment.

I’m so happy this morning.

This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...