Prioritizing Personal Happiness

Comments offer life advice emphasizing doing what you enjoy, focusing on personal priorities and relationships that bring fulfillment, and avoiding overplanning, ambition, or societal 'shoulds' for greater happiness.

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ams6110 Aug 3, 2013 View on HN

Do stuff you like. The rest works itself out.

draw_down Nov 4, 2017 View on HN

I try to focus on what I like doing and who I like spending my time with. I have found that doing things with the aim of one day being a better or different person than I am just leads to distress. You’ll change anyway, but planning it out doesn’t work so well in my experience.

HeyLaughingBoy Apr 15, 2020 View on HN

Life is short and slips away quickly. Use your abilities to further the things that mean the most to you, not on a possibly misguided sense of what you "should" be doing.

dboreham Jan 24, 2021 View on HN

This is just how life turns out ime. Focus on more important things.

danielrhodes Mar 11, 2014 View on HN

Stop focusing on yourself. Solve other people's problems.

deepsun Apr 13, 2019 View on HN

Not sure if spending time on life advice is better than on life itself.

ThomPete Dec 17, 2023 View on HN

Dont create goals, create a system for how you live.

Method-X Jun 23, 2021 View on HN

Exactly! Focus on the things you can control in life and forget about the rest.

eschneider Mar 2, 2025 View on HN

This might sound glib, but figure out what YOU want out of life and optimize for that.

brudgers Jul 10, 2015 View on HN

Get done things that matter to you. Focus and happiness become byproducts of the process.