On your journey to a happier life, try this:
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A Gratitude Notebook
Feeling gratitude is a proven way to grow happiness. Appreciating anything--something that happened, a person, even the weather--is one of the easiest things you can do to lift your sense of well-being.
Write down what you are grateful for:
Every evening before bed, write five things you are grateful for that day. Include anything you are glad of, even if you don't feel especially grateful.
If five is too many, write three. If you can't think of three, write one. Every day.
What you are grateful for can be large or small. Even small things count. You can be grateful for your health and the people you care about even if nothing special happened that day.
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During the day you might enjoy thinking about what to write that night.
Note: It is not as effective to just think about what you are grateful for. Write it down.
If you miss a day or longer, just start again.
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I recommend keeping a gratitude notebook for at least six months. You will feel a difference.
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​Gratitude is "a kind of meta-strategy for achieving happiness...a neutralizer of hostility, envy, worry and irritation" ---Prof. Sonja Lyubomirsky, University of California Riverside.
Feeling grateful is cumulative: the more you do it the better you feel overall.