When is the last time you were fully honest with yourself? How much have you suffered from lying to yourself? Why do you think time stops for you to make excuses for your own actions? You should be living your life in ways you are truly proud of knowing you spent your time wisely. Do things for the people you love and for your own personal growth rather than for the accolades of others that don't really matter at the end of the day.
We give so many other people power over our lives and happiness, then wonder why we feel so miserable and unfulfilled. We lie to ourselves constantly and others, then think back later of ourselves as victims taken from. We are victims, but only of our own traps we set for ourselves to fall into time and time again. We give others forgiveness, when we really need to give it to ourselves. In the very same breath though, we also can't stand when others lie to us, yet allow ourselves to create any excuse we need under the sun. Imagine if we used that same amount of creative energy to motivate ourselves towards a healthier mindset...
Your goals are so unique to you, it's ridiculous to expect anyone else to make them come true for you other than you. Your success starts with becoming aware of what success means to you though. It's okay to find inspiration in others and want it for yourself, but you have to be the one to make it happen for you, and that begins with stopping the lies you tell yourself. Be honest for your own sake and for all the things you love, and focus on what pure joy looks and feels like for you. You'll know when you fall out of alignment, we all have days that feel like a step back. As long as you know you can get up the next day and take another step forward, you are progressing because you are now stronger from that back-step.
So ask yourself, is it really that bad of a fall if you grew more from it than you would if you had never felt that wake up fall? If we're not even in a position where we won't lie to ourselves, who else will we lie to?...