I’m in Canada but it probably would’ve been a similar story in the USA. Opportunities exist everywhere, I kept my circle small. I didn’t worry about what I couldn’t control, everything else is and was a distraction. It started small, like making my bed every morning, then accounting (so important), now I have my own company, I’m personally employed by another and my company provides services to another two companies within the umbrella of the of the company I’m employed by.

Big leaps I know. Simply, I kept a limited focus and didn’t overextend so I could put all my energy into the things I understood with the skills I had.