The phrase "make happiness" is not typically used in written English.
It's more of a colloquial phrase. However, you might use it in a much larger sentence, such as: "Let's make happiness our primary goal this year!".
People who are happy choose to make happiness among their top goals in life, according to psychologist Tom G. Stevens, Ph. D. author of You Can Choose to Be Happy.
The decision solely rests on us individually and by choosing to make happiness a priority, making a conscious choice to be happy and remain happy, we are allowing ourselves to let go of anything or anyone that can potentially disrupt our happiness and gaining greater control of our own feelings and emotions.
I couldn't make Happiness now, even if I wanted to.
'If you make happiness your goal, then you're not going to get to it," says psychologist Dorothy Rowe.
In an editorial observer last month, I noted that many scholars studying happiness agree that it cannot: growing incomes don't make happiness grow.
"It's about taking the DNA of what worked at Zappos – things like purpose, happiness, culture, and profits – which anyone can use as a framework to make happiness as their business model," he says.
Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.
Was David Cameron serious about making happiness a political issue?
"I suppose when I made Happiness, 10 years ago, the subject matter was more shocking.
And this makes happiness as a social or communal pursuit complicated.
Here he may be guilty of making happiness seem easier than it is.
