First, you should internalize that your happiness is far more important than how much money you make. If you could give all your money away to be happy forever,

First, you should internalize that your happiness is far more important than how much money you make. If you could give all your money away to be happy forever, you certainly should, even though it means you are broke and homeless. With that in mind, the most important thing for you to do is to find a great community. You should really move to somewhere where people have similar interests with you so you can bond with them and form great relationships. You could maybe have long distance friendships, but they will never be the same as living within minutes of people you really love and want to spend time with. It's OK to spend a lot of money making that happen, because this will most likely increase your happiness more than anything else you can do. Finding a "direction" or purpose is probably very important to your wellbeing as well (this is supported by evidence-- people who say they feel like they have a purpose in life are subjectively happier on the average). What do you really care about? What do you think is important in the world? Find a way to spend time moving that forward. For example, I like spending time on lots of different things-- coding, making art, making music, cooking, etc etc. but I need to decide how to spend each minute of my life so I just picked a metric I wanted to optimize for-- the net happiness on earth. Now if I feel directionless I just ask "Well what would help make the most people the most happy" and I can start heading in some kind of direction. It works well because the metric is really exciting and important to me. Another way would be to ask yourself "In 100 years, how do I want to be remembered?" or something of that sort. Just find a way to answer the question "what is my purpose in life" and you should be set for a while. Those 2 big things are worth trying. But there's also lots of little things. For me exercise has a huge influence on how happy I feel on a given day-- if I exercised in the morning or the day before, I'm usually much happier. Eating good food has a significant impact for me as well. Talking to friends and spending time in nature are some more. Try out a bunch of that sort of day-to-day happiness/well-being advice and pay attention to what makes you feel good and make sure to do that often, ideally daily or weekly.