Your cousin’s timeline was built for your cousin. Stop trying to squeeze into their jeans.

Every timeline is assembled from a particular set of conditions, the money available, the luck, the family situation, the doors that happened to be open that year. Copying somebody’s schedule without their conditions produces frustration rather than the same result. Comparison quietly assumes two people had the same starting inputs, and they almost never do.

Write out what is actually true for your own situation, the constraints and the openings, and build your next step from that. Then measure yourself against where you were last year instead of where anyone else is now.