New goals need new people. You don’t have to drop everyone, but you probably need to add someone.

What you spend your time wanting is shaped by whoever is around, because their ordinary becomes your reference for normal. A goal that nobody near you shares has to survive on willpower alone, which is a thin supply. One person who takes it seriously changes the whole calculation.

You do not have to leave anybody behind to do this. Find one person, a class, a group, somewhere the thing you are attempting is unremarkable. Being around a single person who assumes it is possible does more than any amount of self-persuasion.