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What constitutes happiness is a very individual matter. However, there are several identifiable components that contribute to an overall feeling of happiness. In essence, happiness can be thought of as satisfaction with one’s life. Your degree of stress, frustration, and anger will fall as your happiness increases.

Read through the following and consider the role they play in your happiness. Think of ways to maximize the positive effect of each factor.

Self

You’ve had the experience where things don’t go as planned. Nothing you have tried seems to have worked. You are tired, frustrated, and worn out. You really feel like giving up. Feeling this way is normal. Everyone experiences frustration. The key is not allowing frustration to get the better of you.

One of the few of Jean Lafitte’s ships to visit south Louisiana that we know by name was the Hotspur, which sailed up the Mermentau River in November 1820 to refill its water casks.
Fifteen-year-old cabin boy Charles Cronea thought he had been ill treated by the captain, Jim Campbell, and jumped ship there. Young as he was, Charlie had already begun to collect tales of adventure that would make him, according his Galveston News obituary in 1893, a man “whose history is as romantic as that of any man of the nineteenth century.”