Introduction

While you can send specific problems to dearauntie and get a reply tailored to you, it is also worth looking at the underlying aim of an agony column. Most people write to an agony aunt because they feel some specific problem is stopping them from being happy.
We all see the pursuit of happiness as a crucial element of our lives: in the US it is enshrined in the constitution: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Here, auntie offers up her own guide to happiness, what it is, what we can do to achieve it and to avoid it slipping away.
Sometimes, it may be that a simple step is all that is required.

The busy communications manager for example, with too much work and too little time, can make life far simpler by calling auntie and handing over work to be handed back completed and on deadline, and all for something as trivial as money.
Other problems may require changes in your way of life or your attitude to life.
So as not to impose auntie's priorities on the solutions offered here, I'll let the alphabet set the order. Auntie hopes you like the guide, but if it doesn't provide the answers you need, feel free to write to auntie with your problem, or to add to or criticise her guide to happiness.