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1. Count your blessings – Count your blessings — but not everyday.

2. Hear the Music

3. Snug. Canoodle. Get It On

4. Nurture Your Spirituality - Survey after survey shows that people with strong religious faith — of any religion or denomination — are happier than those who are irreligious.

5. Move Your Body – We’ve all heard about a “runner’s high,” but there are plenty of other ways to achieve that feeling. Dance. Play a sport. Work out as hard as you can. Take a walk so your stress will take a hike.

6. Laugh Big

7. Do Something Nice for Someone Else - Hold a door open for someone at the bank, give someone directions if they look lost or make a point to compliment three people on your way to work. Small or big, directed at friends or strangers, random acts of kindness make the person performing the kind act happier when they’re grouped together.

8. Make More Money Than Your Peers – Money as an absolute may not make you a happier person but making more money than others in your age group does, according to a sociological study done in 2005 by researchers at Pennsylvania State University.

9. Seek Positive Emotion as a Path to Success – Happiness can lead to success, rather than just the other way around. Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out new opportunities and set new goals.

10. Identify With Your Heritage – Appreciating one’s culture creates and strengthens bonds with others who share that culture and also allows one to identify and appreciate cultural difference.

11. Use a Happy Memory as a Guide – Learn to scan your memory bank for your strengths, talents, passions, interests, practical coping skills, and earlier potential — whether it’s actualized or not.

12. Play the Part of an Optimist – Optimism is a learned skill and there are a variety of ways to acquire it.

13. Try New Things - If you often do one thing that makes you happy, then try another.

14. Tell Your Story to Someone – Talking about the good and bad things that happen can lead to happiness — even if it is from opposite ends of the phone line.

15. Balance Work and Home

16. Be Like the Danes: Keep Expectations Realistic

17. Make Time – Maybe set aside two nights in your calendar to focus on those things that you’d like to spend more time on.

18. Visualize Happiness

19. Smile – Go ahead. It won’t hurt you. It might actually make you happier, too.

20. Marry Happy – Research shows that depressed singles receive greater psychological benefit — from things such as intimacy and emotional closeness — from getting married than those who are not depressed. And for the married population, first of all, congratulations: people in committed relationships have been shown to be happier than those who aren’t, despite how satisfying their marriages actually are.

Source: http://www.time.com/time