When someone experiences true happiness, he/she can be independent and cultivate their own lifestyle without external validation. Are you this person? If not, learn more here about how happiness can bring you the self-confidence to live without the approval of others.

1. How to Increase Your Happiness:
The Qualities of Happiness

2. What is Happiness?
 You probably know the importance of achieving
happiness already, as it would give you a good
feeling.
 Happiness makes you feel good.
 It promotes many positive behaviors and actions that
will benefit: yourself, your family, friends, co-workers,
environment, society, and the world.

3. The Qualities of Happiness
 You don’t need to defend yourself. If you’re doing the
right thing, and other people disagree, you don’t
need to justify yourself.
 You create your own lifestyle. You don’t need others’
approval, resulting in a developing lifestyle that is
different from anyone else’s.
 You aren’t afraid to make mistakes because you
know that you can always learn and improve.

4. The Qualities of Happiness
 You help & support others in need. You understand
that people's happiness is your happiness.
 You don’t act in a way to harm anyone or anything.
 You do not waste things.
 You acknowledge that other people's problems are
your problems; so you try to do whatever you can to
help, even if it’s a small thing.