first of all, short term happy or long term happy?
short term happy is easy - any form of self-indulgence should do the trick.
long term happy is much trickier. there are a plethora of books out there, within each a thousand little strategies to feel good.
does it come down to - living a fulfilling life? finding true love? having enough material comforts? being the king of the world?
as a start, and going back to the original premise of all this, to feel good, being good seems to be a historically well-proven formula. counterintuitive in this day and age, but seemingly it does work.
the next question is, who do you know who is deeply content with life? especially those that can do it regardless of the crap life throws at them? (or because of?) how do they do it? or are they really just chronically lucky? can we ask them?
perhaps to pretend to be them? that could be a start.
