• Wishing for happiness in the future is planning for unhappiness now.
• Planning for happiness in the future is preventing happiness in the present.
• Waiting for your “ship to come in” is failing to unload your ship sitting at the dock.
• Waiting for luck or opportunity to strike is failing to stake out possibilities all around you.
• Focusing on your challenges and obstacles as the causes of your unhappiness is to give them authority, control, and power that they do not otherwise have.