Let your heart guide you to more contentment, pleasure, and gratitude for the life you have today and what you can create for tomorrow. When you feel love, joy and happiness for just five minutes, it strengthens your immunity for up to six hours. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Involvement with people and activities that are meaningful lead to personal growth and to periods of contentment and higher. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Happiness can be perceived as an activity of your soul. Combine wisdom and knowledge with morals and values and you have the foundation for a well lived life. Help others help themselves and you, in turn, will be helped. As a result you often receive more than you ever anticipated in return – and often from unexpected sources.- People who make good choices for themselves learn to balance the six main areas of their life. Mental, social, family, physical, financial, and spiritual.- Look for the positive elements in circumstances, find some piece of good in any person, and choose to have a mindset where you allow pleasurable situations to be more the norm than a rarity. - Be grateful and accept the benefits you have.- Being happy today means being comfortable where you are in the present, not where you would like to be in the future. - Do something today to affect tomorrow in a different and perhaps better way. - Look for the good all around you and give some of it back.A smile is a light in your face that says your heart is at home. It is the universal sign for kindness.Smile for 60 seconds and receive all kinds of great pictures in your head remembering happy and fun times. A smile provides encouragement. You're more likely to think of a solution when you are in a positive mode. If you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected. Start an epidemic quick and get the world infected.Peace of mind and generating peace within yourself are important components of happiness. Two chapters offer suggestions including acceptance, forgiveness and letting go, trust, responsibility, love, and embracing feelings. Health, wealth, patience, hope, faith, and love are key factors. Don't allow events, resentments, or misunderstandings of the past chain you or leave you stuck. Don't waste time and energy fighting conditions or relationships you cannot change. View circumstances in a positive frame of mind, even if they are not the situations you'd prefer. Discover options to make changes to turn it around. Be open-minded and willing to take some risks. Be an adventure or explorer sometimes and let the child come out to play. There are many simple ways to bring joy to others. Notes, flowers, unexpected gifts, coupons for service, food, books, articles, music, personal time, and the sound of your voice. Be creative! People don't laugh because they feel better, they feel better because they laugh. Laughing also encourages people to reach higher levels of enthusiasm, be capable of expanded creativity, plus increase the interest to be part of co-operative efforts - all leading to enhanced productivity overall. Laughing is great therapy for a clogged imagination as well; open-mindedness is easier to reach when you feel relaxed, excited, or happy.For a 'humor first aid kit' you may choose to exaggerate something to an absurd level, frame or reference something to create a different perspective, use props, and borrow ideas from a wide selection of audios, videos, and articles. Three special stories are highlighted to guide your thoughts in a different direction for happiness.Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. It's a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Lincoln said: Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. May you find more smiles, laughs, joy with simple gifts, and peace of mind.