Path To Happiness 101

After a recent event , i felt the nagging feeling that some soul searching was in order .. So i picked up a couple of profoundly philosophical books with a resolve to attain what i was looking for . But while reading one of the books , i came up short . I realised that the perception of happiness depends on the viewpoint of a person . For some it may be money in the bank and social status while for another it may be spreading happiness to others.
                  With that revelation came a question as to what my defintion of happiness may be . I was under the impression that my actions were aimed at attaining happiness . But my state of mind was in shambles and hardly portrayed joy . Thus started my thought process to detect the flaw in my reasoning . After a lot of thinking , i realised that happiness is not a stagnant state of mind but a kind of side effect of our actions . If our actions point north on our moral and ethical compass , it can be said that we are happy .
                This revelation morphed my ideas into an altogether different form . Happiness doesnt cause our actions but our actions result in happiness. And now armed with this new philosophy , starts the state of normalcy again but with a newfound vigour to do whats necesary to be happy . My advice to my peers ? Do what you think is right in your heart and everything willwork out sooner or later (according to your idea of happiness hopefully) .