How to Remain Happy

1. Absorb yourself in your work, friends, family relationships and outside interests.  Move your focus outside.  Become absorbed in what you're doing.  Remind yourself what you are trying to achieve. And if you don't have personal goals - dreams with deadlines - set some.
2. See yourself as in control of your destiny.  We all have problems and setbacks, but things only begin to turn around when you take ownership of your situation. Then you can begin to move forward.
3. Focus on what's right with your life.  This is a tall order in some cases.  Many of us are dealing with unfortunate economic or personal circumstances.  Still, you can't wallow in it.  Accept that the past is past.  Forgive any transgressors, not for their sake but for yours.  Start imaging how things could improve.  This is the predisposition to action.