
It's a fairly simple and straightforward question, but one that can be hard to answer. The idea of being happy is so different from person to person and depends on so many things in your past and life.

Are Happy People Are More Productive People? (Poll)
Happy people are far more productive people for a variety of good reasons, especially the following:

Thanks to technology, things are changing around us daily, but I wonder if we yet realise the consquences for us if we do not change with them? A brief snapshot of current attitudes reflected within British society is outlined below:

We know that the three pillars of personal confidence are our sense of achievement, belonging and self-esteem. If we do not feel we belong, or have achieved enough, our self-esteem tends to suffer.

Most if us find it difficult to deal with the brickbats life throw at us but there are some essential things to do which will lessen the pain and problems we might have, and four, in particular, are priceless.

1. Face Your Fears. Make a list of the major problems in your life, then list ways to improve or change them. They are never really as bad as you think they are. Chances are that not all of your problems can be dealt with easily or quickly because they might involve others.
Authorities: Pilot of stolen plane lands, now on runSource: CNN
The pilot of a small Cessna 172 aircraft reported stolen from a Canadian flight school flew hundreds of miles across the Midwest, landed on a dirt road in Missouri late Monday and took off on foot, federal officials said.
GET HAPPY! - 10 Things Science Says Will Make You HappySource: AlterNet.org
Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
Britney Spears 'For the Record' recap: Now I feel bad for herSource: SeacoastOnline.com
Excerpt: Now I know I've said this before, but Britney is back, and boy oh boy is she letting loose on her critics.
In honor of her new album, "Circus," which hits stores Tuesday, Spears premiered a new documentary, "Britney: For the Record," Sunday night on MTV.

Who doesn't love television. Happy people, apparently. This is the conclusion a team of sociologists at the University of Maryland came to, anyway, after studying a survey taken with 30,000 adults over the 30-ish years from 1975-2006.
7 Signs It's Time to SplitSource: AOL
In any relationship, there are good and bad days, but when do you know that it's time to break up? The easy answer is when the bad days outweigh the good, but it's more complicated than that.
McCain=Bush? Parsing the (Tracking) Poll - The FixSource: The Washington Post
Poll numbers, especially tracking polls, show that John McCain has not been able to create the appearance of a new direction in the eyes of most voters who see his style, and policies as extensions of the failed Bush administration.

For 12 years, from 1993, I was a very successful diversity consultant and trainer, advising all kinds of organisations in the UK - from huge companies like British Telecom, with 100,000 staff, and the Royal Navy, to small minnows like Coulsdon School - to encourage greater divers …

Problematic issues in a relationship are often not as clear cut as they seem because both genders view aspects of the relationship differently. Women appear to have more complaints about their spouses and the state of their marriages, compared to men (Brehm 1985).

(Asked by a 20 year old having some relationship problems)
Nope, not for me, but I can see why you would feel like that from what you have said.

We search for happiness each day, the elusive concept that takes a lifetime of exploring. We often think happiness comes through winning the lottery, through getting a big break, buying a house, a car, the latest fashionable item.
The Over 60's - A New Breed of Go Getters!Source: socyberty.com
We all dread the aging process, but we really don't need to. In this day and age, there is no reason why you should allow yourself to reach an age where you are lonely and unhappy.

According to a recent survey in the UK, more than 55% of people are unfaithful to their partners.

Relationships score most highly as causes of stress levels, with work issues trailing behind. After all, if someone is reasonably happy in their personal life, they can weather the storms at work much better than if they are also unhappy at home.

People like this are usually negative types who feel very insecure, unloved and undervalued, and who fear taking action because they fear the consequences of those actions and do nothing instead. They feel sorry for themselves for four main reasons:

Many of us find it really hard just to b ourselves; to stop acting to expectations. But therein lies our true authority and power. Don't always try to please others or to be like someone else.

Doctors are too readily diagnosing people who are simply unhappy with depression, one of the UK's leading psychiatrists has claimed.