Harvard researcher Shawn Achor has defined a 5 step formula to deep resounding happiness. Those steps include thinking about things you’re grateful for, journaling, meditating, exercising and performing random acts of kindness.

All wonderful things that will bring you joy. Truly. But because the decision to be happy or even pursue happiness is an active thing, there has to be a spark.

You have to want to be happy.

At every major life-changing juncture in my life, I got angry. R-e-a-l-l-y angry. Which produced something magical. Which made me very happy.

I believe that if you want to be happy, you have to get angry.

Headhunters informed me that I could only be a Director when I applied for a position as a vice president. I was enraged by this. I thus created a blog. I requested that the headhunter send a corporation looking for a Vice President a link to my blog. I was hired.

This made me very happy.

Everyone informed me I did not have any social media experience when I tried to participate in it.

This infuriated me, so I bought the domain name Facebookshouldhireme.com. There, I blogged about how much I love social media. A Forbes article brought this to the attention of the country. I brought the story with me to my Buddy Media job interview. I was hired.

This made me very happy.

After a year, Buddy Media let me go. I was so furious I lost my vision. I used my anger and transformed it into a successful agency. then conceived of an international phenomenon. Then I published three books, gave keynote speeches, and appeared on live national television.

All which make me very, very happy.

Hurricane Sandy caused the New York City Marathon to be postponed when I attempted to run it.

I became upset and made the decision to complete the marathon. I was able to finish the marathon for my father, who was suffering from ALS at the time. Now that my father has passed away, I often think back on that memorable moment.

This makes me resoundingly happy.

The rage always motivated me to take action. I produced something as a result of doing something. I found that when I created something, I either succeeded or failed.

However, I felt good about it any way since I was producing. As I learned. I was going through.I was attempting to free my parched throat of the clinging fingers of stagnation.

Getting angry is my secret weapon.

Getting angry pushes and fuels me. Getting angry motivates me to get out of bed and prove everyone who doubted me wrong.

It used to control me. Now I harness it.

With my thoughts, my white-lightening hopes, and my thunderous fantasies, I subdued it. I do not let my rage build up when I am upset. I quickly look it over. I analyze it. I probe its belly to identify the cause.

I make the decision to start extracting it. I am aware of my movement as I move in the direction of removing it. I think as I am moving. I create when I am thinking. I am in the zone while I am creating. I feel blissful when I am in the flow.

I got angry today.

I flashed to ten other times I was angry. I tasted the metallic twinge of blood in my mouth. I swallowed it. I felt it in my bones. I breathed in. I harnessed it.

I created something. I wrote. I shared myself. My rawest self.