You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable
Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."
In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.
You came from a source.
Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.