I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
US Journalist (1882-1958)
Swope is also credited with coining the phrase: cold war
If you have exciting goals and focus on them. The people around you will feel your excitement and try to help you achieve them or they will take another path. Stay focused on your goals.