Succeeding more or less is a personal thing. I used to NOT be so good at it and for longer than I care to admit; however, regardless of good times or bad - it makes little difference.
Rule #1: We are as successful as we are willing to inconvenience ourselves.
Be - Be like those people who have gotten there before
Do - things like they do
Have - things like they do.
Rule #2 there are 168 hours in a week - 56 for sleep, 40-60 for a job = approximately 110 hours.
Rule #3 we have 58 hours left to inconvenience ourselves even more!!!
If it were me, I would highly focus on these 58 (whatever) hours of daily and weekly thoughts/actions.
Rule #4 Next, I would have an extra clear mind vision (expectation) what I wanted for the following:
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, six months, annually & then 3 years. We often miss what we don't shoot for.
Rule #5 We first, we must master our Daily and Weekly cadence - everything else works the same way from there. We learned to ride a bicycle never knowing why it worked so - so who cares why.
Our mind/body is heat seeking missile - but only we can point it less so or not. That's my only point.
But regardless of everything else; "Make it work" is the only core advice I give myself - daily. I make a point to do it.
All my best,
jim b.