"Happy" doesn't describe an innate attribute or constant emotional state. It describes how you or I react to experiences. We can't predict or control everything that affects us, but we can choose how we interpret and react. We call a person "happy" if they seem to take things in stride, find something positive, not get anxious or angry. I think feeling happy, or content, most of the time comes from not expecting the world and the other people in it to behave the way I might like them to or think they should. I can choose not to worry and make myself anxious over things I can't control. I can decide not to let someone manipulate or control my emotional reactions. Everyone can make those decisions.
Buddhism teaches that we all suffer as part of living, and desire causes that suffering. It follows that reducing desire may reduce suffering and lead to contentment and happiness. Someone may desire material things, a romantic partner, friends. Many people desire that other people behave in a certain way, or that the world should treat them fairly. When their desires don't get fulfilled they feel disappointed, anxious, sad, angry.
Absurdism offers the idea that life has no deep meaning, the universe doesn't care about us, and no deity or higher power watches over us and intervenes in our affairs. Some people find that prospect frightening and depressing (thus spiritual beliefs and religion). Others find it freeing and comical -- if we have no purpose we can choose to enjoy our brief lives as much as possible.
A happy person accepts and adapts to what comes their way. They don't indulge in useless emotions like worry, guilt, regret. They change their situation as much as they can to enjoy life more.
Since "happy" describes how a person interprets and reacts to the world, and people who seem happy come from all cultures and traditions and walks of life, I don't think asking what a day, week, or year in such a person's life looks like will give any useful information. You can't make yourself feel happier by brooding over how people you perceive as happy live their lives.
Rest of the day is spend learning C, working on an C#/Azure Function webshop i have. This is intermingled with an Alternating Current containing fear of the future to excitement of the future. 1700 ish Take a break and workout for atleast an hour. 1800 ish Eat, relax and then bedtime
This pattern repeats itself until Friday afternoon where i spend a couple of hours socializing and in the weekends i work on my outdoor IOT-project.
Being grateful and appreciating everything each day brings.
Rinse and repeat.
Wake up at 7am, work on my own projects until 9am. Work for $EMPLOYER until noon. Workout until 1pm. Work for $EMPLOYER until 5pm. Hang out with my wife until 10pm-ish, sleep.
Week:
See above, multiply by 5. Weekends: whatever I feel like, preference for riding my bike or walking in nature.
Year:
See above, multiply by 47. 5 weeks out of 52, I'm on holiday, usually near a beach.
Then I live through the day and get to bed often later than Id love to.
Sorry to disappoint you, but my life looks very boring. And i am happy.
Then I quietly meditate for 20 minutes before I start any work.
Periodic meditation and prayer throughout the day.
My day depends on what season it is. Winter time I'm writing code. Summer time I'm farming and building.
I strive for a 1% improvement every day.
pretty much like this scene in antman: https://youtu.be/AFqaGb7Qxm4
Wake up at 5 AM. Wake wife up with a kiss. Bottle the milk for the youngest kids then shove them into the shower half asleep. Wife preps school lunch. Take a shower, pray, carry disabled mother in law into wheelchair. Shove kids into car. Enjoy the sunrise.
Drive MIL to dialysis. Send kids to school. Sometimes grab a nice meal out with wife and toddler. Sometimes cook eggs and bread at home, or a smoothie. Get in about 1-2 hours of work done or review PRs.
At 11 AM, pick up MIL from dialysis. Reach home office around 1145, in time for daily stand up. Lift weights during stand up instead of multitasking on browsers. Grab a lettuce for lunch and a navel orange for sugar. Wife picks up kids at 3 PM.
Code stuff until 5 PM or so at home office. Enter house. Kids tackle me. Pry them off. Ask kids if they've done their homework (answer is usually no, but then they get off me). Carry MIL to wheelchair for shower. Younger kids usually shower with her. Cook dinner or answer work messages. Carry MIL from shower to bed. Chase kids around who usually refuse to put on clothes. Sometimes we eat at a restaurant.
Have dinner. Kids are sleepy and fight. Grab a shower while they fight. Wife sleeps in a separate bed because the large one gives her back pain. Kids want the big bed. Kids refuse to sleep with each other but also refuse to sleep in own bed. Sometimes they sleep on the floor. Handle random requests from kids at night (milk, late night snack, watching stars, favorite book, etc). Kids are usually asleep by 10 PM.
I play idle games on my phone or browse social media until the kid on my arm has fallen asleep. Then finish up some work to make up for lost time in the morning. Sometimes do a little freelancing. Sometimes read a book or play a game. Sleep by 1 AM, preferably 12. If I'm still up late at night, it's a good time for prayer.
Week:
Weekdays are similar to the above. Saturday mornings involve bringing kids for classes, MIL for dialysis. Then later in the day, either I freelance or we go grocery shopping.
Sundays we do random things. Sometimes bring the whole family out for food and a walk at the mall. Sometimes the parks. Or bird parks. Butterfly parks. Libraries. Or a movie. Or just sit at home and play some game together. Or I freelance.
Or at times we drive in a random direction and visit a town we've never visited before. There's a really nice view at the local dam, and also at the airport as planes touch down. Beauty is not just in nature.
Split all freelance income with wife, 50-50.
Year:
Take a week off every quarter. I enjoy coding until morning with coffee, mountain dew, ramen, and Metallica. Which leads to burnout easily and so the week off helps me keep out of an unproductive spiral of working long hours to make up for unproductive work that leads to long hours.
Usually spend the week off meeting old classmates, either mine or my wife's. Sometimes family, especially on holidays and birthdays.
Generally vacations are wherever my wife's best friends can afford to bring their entire family. So we don't actually spend too much or feel like we need that much more money.