--- title: Stop “Looking” & Learn How To CREATE Happiness - PART 1 of 3 description: Want to know how to create happiness? Don’t wait for anything external to happen. You need consistent, daily effort. It's a lot like exercising actually... --- [![Amazing-01](https://amazing.com/hubfs/Amazing_Theme_Nov_2024/images/Amazing-01.svg)](https://amazing.com/) - [Features](https://amazing.com/#features) - [Membership](https://amazing.com/#membership) - [Pricing](https://amazing.com/pricing) - [Blog](https://amazing.com/blog) - [Company](https://amazing.com/company) [Login](https://amazing.com/login?) [Join Amazing](https://amazing.com/checkout) # Stop “Looking” For Happiness & Create It – PART 1 [Matt Clark](https://amazing.com/blog/author/matt-clark) ###### Share this post [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://amazing.com/blog/creating-happiness) [Share this blog post on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://amazing.com/blog/creating-happiness) You don’t *find* happiness, you *create* it. I’ve been digging into the work produced by positive psychology researchers lately. I find it absolutely fascinating. I read *Success Principles* by Jack Canfield in my second year of college. Ever since then, I’ve been a voracious reader of self-help books. The relatively new field of positive psychology takes scientific research standards and applies them to the field of self-help. In the past, self-proclaimed self-help experts taught strategies they either made up based on their own experiences or based on the experiences of the limited number of people they had worked with. They didn’t try to isolate what *really* worked and what didn’t using the same rigor that prescription drugs go through in research trials. Positive psychology researchers do. At this point, I’ve read thousands of pages on positive psychology. I’m going to share some of what I consider the most interesting findings… **First, you don’t *find* happiness, you *create* it.** We’ve been taught to strive for goals, strive to live a better life, strive to “live big”, strive to achieve. Then, one day, we’ll achieve big things and feel great! However…recent research proves otherwise… According to positive psychology, 50% of your happiness is determined by genetics, 40% is determined by intentional activity, and only 10% is determined by your circumstances. So, **no matter what you achieve or how much you change your outward circumstances, you are only moving the needle in the smallest chunk of what determines your overall happiness.** You can make the biggest improvement by focusing on the critical 40%, how you *think* and *act*. This means you have the opportunity to create happiness every single day. You don’t have to wait for anything external to happen. You just need consistent, daily effort. Creating lasting happiness is much like exercising. You don’t think, “Hey, I exercised really hard a month ago…so I’m good for the next 3 months, right?”. Wrong. To maintain fitness, it requires consistent exercise. To maintain happiness, it also requires consistent exercise. You *create* your happiness by what you do each and every day. 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