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　　Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what that it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness?   51   the following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

　　●  Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy. You moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

　　●  Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way.   52   .

　　●  When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don't allow setbacks to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

　　●    53   These few minutes will give you opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

　　●    54   .Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously（下意识地）putting yourself in a better mood.

　　●  Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.

　　●  Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness.   55   .

　　E．Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.

　　F．There are some steps in life that lead to happiness.

　　G．It's also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
　　I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
　　I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
　　If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
　　Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
　　Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
【小题1】What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?