You create a good future by creating a good present.
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.
What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?