This document outlines 12 practices for a happy life, including seeing reality accurately instead of how you wish it to be, setting intentions based on virtue rather than harmful motives, behaving ethically, speaking harmoniously instead of gossiping, maintaining balance in work and leisure, choosing a career that helps others and the environment, being fully present instead of mindlessly busy, training the mind to focus on positivity, and assessing personal happiness using metrics from happycounts.org.