Pursuit of happiness

I'm on a pursuit of happiness. I've been on that pursuit for a very long time. I've made goals that I thought would make me happy, reached them and found that they weren't all that great. What will make me happy? I suppose it should start from the inside out.
Yesterday, I rememered this self help craze that I heard about last year that appealed to my interests. But, for some reason I didn't pursue it. I tried and tried to remember what it was called and googled numerous variations of "using the universe for betterment" but I couldn't find anything on the phenomenon. I did, however, find a blog on positive thoughts and settled on reading the articles on there daily. One of the entries insisted that in order to succeed in life I must be genuine. Well, my genuine, heart felt feelings are negative and crass. No one wants to be a part of that. What makes my genuine feelings so negative? Maybe I'm not happy? So I google how to be happy and *pop* up comes the self help phonomenon I was looking for yesterday. "The Law of Attraction" yep, there it was. The belief that whatever you are thinking about you create in your life. I think that I use this process without concious thought but what if I actually try. Will I be more happy, therefore have genuine happy feelings and then be able to create positive energy and so on?
Hope so. I'm going to research and find out.
God knows, anything has got to help the way I have been feeling down, sore and tired here lately.
I think I'll concentrate on having more energy today.