How to be happier

1. Start spending time with the right people.
2. Start facing your problems head on. 
3. Start being honest with yourself about everything. 
4. Start making your own happiness a priority. 
5. Start being yourself, genuinely and proudly. 
6. Start noticing and living in the present.
7. Start valuing the lessons your mistakes teach you. 
8. Start being more polite to yourself. 
9. Start enjoying the things you already have. 
10. Start creating your own happiness. 
11. Start giving your ideas and dreams a chance. 
12. Start believing that you’re ready for the next step. 
13. Start entering new relationships for the right reasons. 
14. Start giving new people you meet a chance. 
15. Start competing against an earlier version of yourself. – Be inspired by others, appreciate others, learn from others, but know that competing against them is a waste of time.  You are in competition with one person and one person only – yourself.  You are competing to be the best you can be.  Aim to break your own personal records.
16. Start cheering for other people’s victories. 
17. Start looking for the silver lining in tough situations. 
18. Start forgiving yourself and others. 
19. Start helping those around you. 
20. Start listening to your own inner voice.
21. Start being attentive to your stress level and take short breaks.
22. Start noticing the beauty of small moments. 
23. Start accepting things when they are less than perfect.  Sometimes it’s better to accept and appreciate the world as it is, and people as they are, rather than to trying to make everything and everyone conform to an impossible ideal.  No, you shouldn’t accept a life of mediocrity, but learn to love and value things when they are less than perfect.
24. Start working toward your goals every single day. – Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.  Whatever it is you dream about, start taking small, logical steps every day to make it happen.  Get out there and DO something!  The harder you work the luckier you will become.  While many of us decide at some point during the course of our lives that we want to answer our calling, only an astute few of us actually work on it.  By ‘working on it,’ I mean consistently devoting oneself to the end result.  
25. Start being more open about how you feel. 
26. Start taking full accountability for your own life.
27. Start actively nurturing your most important relationships. Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of.
28. Start concentrating on the things you can control. 
29. Start focusing on the possibility of positive outcomes. 
30. Start noticing how wealthy you are right now.

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/18/30-things-to-start-doing-for-yourself/