Everythings is easy. One step to happiness is simple:

Give responsibility.

Everyone wants to be happy. They take responsibility, create something, sell it, and then give responsibility and live in 5 starts hotels which are sunny and very happy for your health :)

Kids are happy because they do not have any responsibilities. When they grow older, they must take responsibility for surviving purposes.

How to make it more healthier? Do not think that taking resposibility is always "must", "work hard", sometimes it is just a game.

So a much deeper step to financial freedom is "play a better game", and a step to happiness is "play a better game game" :)

It is two sides of everthing, in and out, taking and giving flows of energies, yin and yang.