Are you the happiest person you know? Are you the happiest person in your office? Are you the happiest person in your family?

We have to be careful because if we are not the happiest person we know we will usually gravitate to those who look happier than we are in order to become happy. This usually leads to misguided choices.
Much unwanted stress comes from pushing too hard in the hope that something, somewhere is going to finally make us feel happy. It won't. It's wiser to get happy, then go do... you'll be more calm, balanced and centred this way.

Many people will say I am happier person because I am with my partner. Or, they might even say I am happier because I have my children. This form of happiness is a dependency that creates all manner of complications in relationships and business as well as dysfunction in child care.

Happiness is an obligation not a choice. An unhappy person will seek happiness and sometimes in the most dangerous and self depreciating ways. A person who is not happy develops a huge ego in order to protect their unhappiness from the stimulation of anything that reminds them of how they really feel. The ego serves to protect them from feeling their own unhappiness.