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To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise.

“Being happy with what you have doesn't prevent you from pursuing what you want.”

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.” — Stephen King

"Habits have a blast radius."

Explaining problems is good. Often in the process of laying out a problem, a solution will present itself.

Understand people have the right to be tasteless.

Unrealized potential will ruin your life.

Most people are brought up believing that if they are a good person, good things will happen to them. While not entirely wrong, it’s not enough to unlock your potential. It's like walking up to a door with two locks and only one key. If you want to go inside, you need the other key. The second key is going positive and going first—proactively helpi... See more

Don’t confuse ‘doing a thing because I like it’ with ‘doing a thing because I want to be seen as the sort of person who does such things’

If other people having it worse than you means you can’t be sad, then other people having it better than you would mean you can’t be happy. Feel what you feel.