Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail
Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.
Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.
Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.