• To find success, stop creating and feeding self-defeating problems.
• To feel empowered, solve or cope with some of your problems.
• To become valuable to others, first become valuable to yourself by solving some of your own problems.
• To become responsible, recognize which of your life problems are directly under your control and incrementally improve them.
• To find acceptance and peace, recognize that there always has been hate, injustice, and unfairness in the world and your job is first not to contribute to it and second to lessen it at least in your mind and interactions with people, animals, and plants.