How can I be more happy?

1. Write down your most important goals in life,  rank them in order of  importance, and give up the less-important goals that clash with your more important goals:

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.  If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.  Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. ”

(From Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, p 30)