It’s an opinion paper. Don’t make it so hard. It’s not wrong or right.

On the “Goals” side”

* Focusing on and accomplishing goals would empower you.

* Meeting your obligations would make you more well-liked.

* Meeting obligations would make you less selfish

* Meeting goals would build your confidence

* Focusing your energies on goals would put you in motion toward fullfilment.

* Focusing on goals would make you more organized and scheduled.

On the happiness side:

* If you consumed with your own happiness, then perhaps you would miss what others need and want

* Focusing on happiness doesn’t have an action component in it. It’s static and doesn’t move you.

* Focusing on your own happiness is pretty shallow and self-centered. To be happy, you have to make other people happy.

* To be happy is a noble goal, but it would not come from just focusing on it. It would come from actions.

* To focus on happiness, to go on a quest for it, to want it assumes that you don’t have it already. Happiness is a choice, not a quest.