Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.