Consider using this as a checklist of what you need on the path of happiness creating.
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GETTING TO HAPPINESS (Hint: It is not from others or circumstances.)
EDUCATING ON WHAT CREATES HAPPINESS:
These must be assembled to complete the process of being happy.  You can use it as a checklist of what to complete on the road to happiness.
___ KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR – How things work in life
        ___  Giving up poor payoff control – Seeing the ineffectiveness of control, controlling others
 
___ WISDOM – Knowing how the brain, body, humans, and the world works – and doesn’t work.
 
                happiness.  This needs a solid installation, so that you have a sound foundation for happiness.
        ___ CHARACTER – A collection of disciplines to follow what works
 
___ + + GRATITUDE – For life and our human abilities, for all of the world, having a high perspective
 
        ___ + + SENSE OF CONTROL – I can make my life work, regardless of the circumstances.
                
        ___ SELF-CARE – Keep oneself at a state of high resourcefulness, not overloading, etc.
 
USING ENHANCERS:  (To put into place and keep in place.)
    REMINDER SYSTEMS 
     SUPPORT SYSTEMS
              PARTNERING WITH PEOPLE
              SUPPORTING STRUCTURES – Time mgmt, planning, systems    
    PRACTICES
    EXPOSURE TO POSITIVE, SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE – And reading, seeing examples/models.