My latest studies have lead me to see that happiness is a choice. Happiness is not something attained, it is not an artificial feeling, it is actually a decision in attitude.

Do you want to feel happy in your life? Do you finally want to 'get there' and stay in that good feeling of reassurance that everything is good?

I can tell you right now, there is no secret to life in terms of what I can do to be happy. You don't need to meditate an hour a day to reach enlightenment and you don't need to slave yourself at a job you temporarily hate so one day you'll be rich and ready to play golf in your retirement.

Stop looking for reasons to be happy. Quit looking for excuses to feel good, stop looking for 'items' to add to your appreciation list. To me, this is a silly mindset that still encompasses the ideals of seeking happiness. Chasing happiness. Trying to find some little reason, no matter how small, to feel happy, whilst I can applaud you for the effort, it's still following an equation deemed for failure eventually.

Outer physical things + the satisfaction of it = happiness.

I'm sorry, but this is just plain wrong.

Happiness is actually something you put into the equation:

Happiness attitude = Generation of even more happiness.

Yep. You slot in happiness. It isn't attained, it isn't earned, it actually isn't even necessarily learned.

It is a choice. And you can decide right now to take it or you can decide to feel some other way. Funny enough, when something 'bad' happiness to you, you may tell me you feel bad and your happiness is gone. And I'll tell you, you are immediatly labelling something as bad and manifesting your own corresponding emotions into it. It's a tricky process to intelectually grab and it makes little logical sense, but yes, you can enjoy your life right now.

So here is my trick to entail vortex entry more frequently: smile.

Smile more often to start with. Not a grin, not something fake, not something you feel is not a real smile. Go into a mirror alone, and force yourself to put on the best smile you can for a few seconds.

Would you prefer to be a smiling, happy person, that is in the state of mind even when things are bad? You can be charismatic, warm, genuine, enthusiastic, in an automatic state of "life is good" more than you think.

When you are in bed nodding off to sleep, smile like you mean it. Perhaps you can play some music, but put on a smile that translates as "things are good, things are getting better, things are always becoming greater and I'm glad about it."

When you wake up in the morning, in the bed, manifest a smile. Put it on, and get on with your day in a happiness mindset.

There are some characters I've kept in a journal for the past year of people whom are eternally happy and are cool. Follow them:

Kronk from The Emporers New Groove

Mr Magarium, credit to @CalonLan for bringing this to my attention, from Mr Magoriums Wonder Emporium.

Johhny Bravo, from Johhny Bravo.

Chuck from Are We Done Yet?

Marvin from Wall Street (same actor as Chuck from Are We Done Yet)

Juglio Iglesias, the singer.

Zohan, from You Don't Mess with The Zohan.

I really hope this helps shed some light in your life and it changes your life. You'll find that life is about experiences and relationships, and being the most enthusiatic, happiest person with the most optimistic and fun attitude is the person people want to be around. You'll find an entire chapter dedicated to happy people in the book, The Luck Factor.