Non-fiction book in the Life Help section on the subject of happiness and how to consistently bring it about yourself. The book describes, hastily and with practical examples, how the reader can be happy permanently and independently of external circumstances and achieve consistent clarity, satisfaction, and joy within a short time. Happiness is the state in which man finds himself when he is free from negative thoughts of any kind. For happiness is our ex-factory default setting if we do not sabotage it, and thus ourselves, with negative thoughts or reprogram ourselves, so systematically that happy thoughts hardly have a chance to penetrate. Happiness can well be compared to the image of a cork in water: unmolested, it floats steadily on the surface of the watereven in rough seas. Only when it is weighted down and pulled down does it lose its natural buoyancy. It is similar with our happiness. As long as we do not sink it with negative thoughts, it remains with us regardless of external circumstances. Since we can influence our thoughts, happiness is a purposeful choice, which most people do not make only because they are not aware of this fact. They believe their thoughts and emotions are an unavoidable reaction to external circumstances, and thus feel at the mercy of a fate they cannot influence. This book shows that this is not true and that we can determine our thoughts ourselves. We have the free choice of our thoughts in every situation, and can create our own feeling of happiness by either refraining from thoughts that hinder happiness or by changing them into thoughts that promote happiness. This is easier than many people assume because we have an emotional guidance system that gives us an immediate signal, based on our feelings, whether our thoughts are conducive to our happiness. If we learn to listen to it by focusing on thoughts that feel good, the emotional guidance system reliably points the way to our happiness. The happiness methods presented in the book show how we can direct the focus of our thoughts in a way that is conducive to our happiness, regardless of external circumstances, with practical examples from everyday life situations. To be able to rest securely in our feeling of happiness at all times, we must also acquire a permanently positive basic attitude toward life. We filter our impressions according to our personal expectations. To align these positively, we must give up learned beliefs (negative thought habits) that impair our happiness and adopt beliefs (happiness premises) that are conducive to our happiness. How both succeed with the luck methods pointed out, is likewise obtained in the book based on descriptive examples. A part of the represented ways of thinking is based on the so-called law of the attraction. This states that one's own life reality is influenced by the way we perceive and interpret it - i.e. by our thoughtsand that like is attracted by like. According to this theory, we create our own life reality through our thoughts and always attract what we radiate. For readers who are put off by the supposedly esoteric approach of this assumption, the principles presented in the book are explained both under the aspect of the law of attraction and because of common sense or general empirical theorems and are presented in a colorfully differentiated manner. In the last chapter of the book, based on an exemplary "happiness everyday life" lived according to the principles shown, both the inclusion of the happiness methods that maintain the feeling of happiness in the face of concrete challenges, and those that lead to a consistently positive basic attitude to life through permanent application in our everyday lives.