What is happiness?
Happiness is not mental, physical, or chemical stimulation, though sometimes it may feel that way. Happiness must be earned.
Happiness is not excitement, the anticipation of some future pleasure. Happiness exists only in the present.
Happiness is not just contentment, the feeling that your needs have been met. Happiness also addresses your wants.
Put simply, happiness is what you feel when you have met your personal criteria for success. Some people are never happy because their criteria are impossible to meet. A man who is 5’8″ wishing to be 6’2″. Others are unhappy because their criteria are unrealistic. A woman who wishes to lose 30 pounds in only 3 weeks. And still others depend on an act of god before they will allow happiness to enter their lives. A student drowning in debt who prays to win the lottery.
Most people are able to avoid the aforementioned pitfalls only to step into a more insidious trap. That is, they make their happiness contingent upon fulfillment of certain conditions.
“When I can fit back into my old jeans…”
“When I’ve increased my income by 50%…”
“When I get a girlfriend…”
On the surface, an emphasis on results seems reasonable. Not only can the average person produce such results, but he will do so several times throughout his life and thus attain happiness. But most of your life is not spent at your chosen destinations; it is spent on the journey toward those destinations. If you only allow yourself to feel happy once you have achieved a particular outcome, you will spend most of your time on this earth feeling miserable. You will not always get what you want. You cannot exercise absolute dominion over all aspects of your environment. You are neither in control of what others think of you nor how they act towards you.
Rather than make your happiness dependent upon getting results, make it dependent upon taking action. Instead of feeling happy only when you’ve lost weight, feel happy when you’ve exercised and eaten a healthy meal. Instead of feeling happy only when you’re making more money, feel happy when you’ve taken steps to improve your earning potential. Instead of feeling happy only when you have a girlfriend, feel happy when you’ve left the house and taken a chance on someone new.
Am I happy every day?
Of course not. But on the days that I am happy, I notice that I am indeed walking my chosen path. On the days that I am unhappy, I have invariably veered off that same path. That is because life is about the labor, not the fruit. And happiness is about the journey, not the destination.
Choose to Take the Journey 
Your definition of happiness is good.
This was an interesting article. However, this is only YOUR opinion. For example, there are people who win millions-upon-millions of dollars on the lottery and become HAPPY!!! Guess what? That’s their God-given right.
People are entitled to their beliefs, feelings and thoughts. No one can define HAPPINESS for another soul. Only each and every person knows what makes them truly happy.
God Bless.