Happiness is a path, not a final destination. Although the definitions of happiness might not be the same, some best practices could enable us to live a happier and more rewarding life. By adopting some strategies into our everyday lives, we can get used to overcoming life hurdles with the power of resilience and appreciating life fully being just the present moment. Let's see some actionable steps to learn happiness using best practices:

1. Daily Habits for Happiness:

Smile Every Day: Smile is not only an emotion but also a biological function in the brain that serves to release the dopamine hormone causing the feeling of happiness. Create the habit of smiling around wherever you go, looking at yourself or the passerby on the street.

Exercise Regularly: In turn, the skeleton is not only a foundation of our bodies, but it means our mental health. Attempt to do a light workout every day, even if it is simply a short compulsory walk or a few stretching exercises to make you feel better and destress.

Prioritize Sleep: Sleep has to be regarded as more than just a restorative resource. It's not just the body that needs to be protected but also the mind which is as much reliant on sleep as the body is. Try to get at least 7 hours of sleep and build a sleep schedule to ensure you get proper sleep.

Mindful Eating: Make sure to try and understand how the different foods can affect your mood and energy levels. From those get the foods that increase your moods and give you the most energy. Health is wealth. Enrich your body by having enough nutrition always.

Practice Gratitude: Develop every day a mind of gratitude by constantly focusing on positive events that make up your life. Furthermore, recognize situations that you are thankful for. Commence a gratitude diary or just let it flow to the things that fill up your life with feels good.

2. Weekly Habits for Happiness:

Declutter Regularly: A few minutes spent cleaning out the physical clutter around might just be what you need to achieve that (feeling of clarity and) internal peace. Allow yourself five to ten minutes every day to organize one single place in your home while letting go of things that no longer have any value in your life.

Connect with Others: Create a bond with your friends, family, or pets by setting up some social activities regularly or serving the community. Human contact or connection puts people in a happier state and helps them live a healthy and good emotional life.

Plan and Prioritize: Allot time every week where you organize and plan what you have to undertake in the coming days. Gradually adjusting your time management, and setting up reasonable goals that you will be able to complete according to your priorities, can be a perfect solution for stress relief and help you to take control certain pieces in your life.

Unplug and Reconnect with Nature: Disconnect from technology and get close to nature once a week. You don't need to go far, a close by park, garden, or natural place will do. Nature is a tranquilizer for our minds and bodies as it soothes us inside out and allows us to connect spiritually.

3. Monthly Habits for Happiness:

Give Back: Make a monthly schedule of a few hours spent helping others by doing kind gestures or donating things. Besides the fact that you help others, it brings you a higher sense of meaning and fulfillment through the process.

Invest in Self-Care: Structure a portion of every month just for yourself with nourishing activities that mentally, physically, and spiritually relieve. Whether it's blowing the steam out by a spa day, relaxing through meditation, or pursuing a hobby that brings you joy, make sure the activities that are of interest come first in your line.

Reflect and Reevaluate: Do an audit of yourself every month in terms of your progress particular goals and overall priorities. Praise your successes and define areas that need to be honed and tuned up, keeping in mind that it is OK to make a relocation if necessary.

4. Yearly Habits for Happiness:

Annual Self-Assessment: Build yourself a self-evaluation routine, ideally it will be a part of the annual routine and will cover the major aspects of your life including goals and values. Think over your successes, difficulties, and gaps for personal development, and make necessary adjustments to attend to your idea of happiness.

Goal Setting and Planning: Take out the new year as a time wherein you could set worthwhile goals and purposes for the upcoming months. Your goals should be your priority and you should break them into smaller, manageable goals. Create a plan that you will use in your process, focusing on areas that fuel you and make you satisfied.

Travel and Exploration: Schedule an annual holiday or exploration where you can visit places and learn about different cultures either in the form of a day trip or an extended trip. Travel takes you away from your comfort zone, makes you see life from different perspectives, as well as gives birth to memories that you keep for your whole life, and makes you much happier.

Implementing these good habits in your life is key for you to enrich and strengthen both your happiness and well-being in the long run. Focus on the fact that happiness is a set of skills that can be acquired over time and that doing this should be a part of your daily routine along with paying attention to relations with other people and self-development. This will enable you to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.