Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?
Time and chance are on their own schedule. The best you can do is prepare for the opportunities that arise, good and bad. Preparation, or sharpening your axe isn’t as fun as other things you could do. It all comes down to focus. What is it that you really want? You have to know or you won’t pursue it. It is really easy to get distracted today. More people are addicted to their tiny screens (phones) than were the idiot box of the Baby boomer generation. There was always something but this one is taking people out earlier than before. We have access to some much information, images, and eye candy that we do nothing but watch it.