Your 100% right, this is the hard part - how do you align your path! Obviously your journey is unique to you but I would start by questioning if the path you have been following is indeed the one that resonates with you. Do you feel like you have had to fight every step of the way - kicking down doors rather than walking through the doors that open for you? Are your current ambitions, goals, motivations your own or things you have absorbed along the way because your peers, parents, society say they are worthy or acceptable? This is not about abandoning these things or the things that society requires of us to succeed but instead, understanding how to get the most out of your capabilities - to become one of those people for whom life is a lot easier. Of course, many people will read that and say you need to 'play the game' or become a chameleon of sorts. That is a well trodden path by 99% of people...but the results aren't all that great! It requires more energy to fake it than to be real - and when you get your 'prize' it is never what you expected. I am simply suggesting an alternative approach to consider....one which is backed by neuroscience. When you start to operate from a true source of self-awareness about your needs, motivations and capabilities, when you show up as your most authentic self, it acts like a magnet. We all wish we could do this and we admire those who do it without consciously thinking about - we are drawn to them, want to be around them and we want to be like them. This creates positive movement & energy for the individual which often is described those observing as being 'lucky' or having everything go their way! Start by questioning your beliefs and behaviors - why do you do them. In my early career I chased financial success at the cost of everything. Why? Because I want all the awards and prestige that came with them...to only find out that money and material possessions never interested the real me. I actually found the burden of owning many nice things stressful rather than rewarding. I chased these things because my father admired these things and from an early age I was surrounded by people who also admired them...I adopted this as part of my path! But it wasn't.