Consider that fulfilling your potential might look different than you imagine. Perhaps it's not about finding the perfect external circumstances, but about bringing your full presence to whatever circumstances arise. The "right place" might be wherever you are when you're fully there.
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.”