There's a corollary to this: Sometimes your house isn't the thing holding you back. Sometimes, getting the right environment won't work, because the problem is

There's a corollary to this: Sometimes your house isn't the thing holding you back. Sometimes, getting the right environment won't work, because the problem is in your expectations, not in what you're doing. When you keep thinking "If only I had X / lived in Y, I could Z", you're really failing to think about (as the author said) the things you can do in your current situation. But again, that intervention in your current situation isn't magic, so you have to start with your expectations. Can I do 10% better here? Possibly, indeed. Can I change everything at once? Highly unlikely. Is moving to a different place going to make you a different person? Nope. It might make some things more possible, but it's just a possibility.