9 Ways to be Happy and Make Something With your Life 1. Be Grateful A wise person once said that to be grateful is to have a great attitude—which I interpret as assuming a positive stance or position toward the present moment. The Latin root, gratus , implies pleasure or something pleasing. So, to be grateful is to be full of pleasure. Sitting in gratitude, I breathe in, feeling a delicious warmth spreading across my chest as I exhale with an audible "m-m-m." Clearly, I am enjoying this very pleasent moment of reflection. 2. Be smart To be happy you don't need to be smart but you need to know what are you doing. If you know that you are smart, you can use it in many ways to be happy. Because you can do whatever you want by using you intelligent. If you are not a smart person you may have some troubles in life. There are some situations that you need to be smart. A smart person is not only a good p