One of the main pain inducers in your life comes from your wanting certain results from specific actions.
If you could practice detachment from outcomes, how would your life look? Do you think you could be happier if you freed yourself from such expectations? You want your life to look a certain way.
You plan to reach specific goals.
Maybe you want to earn a particular degree, live in a certain neighborhood, or marry a particular person.
You created a vision board and know precisely who and what will be in your Very Excellent Life.
Many gurus will tell you to focus on that vision board and speak affirmations every day-in the morning, at night, and every time your mind thinks of it.
So you do as they say, all the while hoping and wishing all your dreams come true.
But nothing much happens to take you to your dreams.
How come? Tell me, in your heart, do you want it all so badly, you think you will go crazy if you don't get it? What if there is a better place to live, or a different college degree that would bring you a job that would be more fulfilling?  What if there was a more suitable person to be your lifelong partner? What if all those things were true-and you never knew about any of them? When you become attached to a particular outcome, you limit what the Universe can bring to you.
When you ask for the same thing over and over again you are, in essence, telling the Universe you have zero faith any of it will manifest for you.
In other words, you do not trust the Universe to answer your requests.
In fact, because you ask every day for the very same things, you yourself seem to doubt you can have any of those items manifest for you.
Doubt kills your requests.
The Universe does not fulfill on thoughts that include doubt or lack faith.
Such requests reflect a poverty consciousness, a lack of security.
You see, your attachment to a known end, traps you in the insecure place of not knowing what to do if your requests do not manifest for you.
Your need for a known outcome reveals your attachment to your past.
When you live in your past you miss your present.
You can only live and set intentions in the now.
When you make a request and set your intention on realizing that outcome-but, then, let it go, leaving it entirely in the hands of the Universe-that is when the Universe moves to bring it to you...
or something better.
To be happier, ask for what you want.
Intend to manifest it.
Then release it.
Just let go and go about your business.
If your request is in your highest and best interest the Universe will deliver it to you.