[ What got me here … ]

There’s the old saying, ‘what got you here, won’t get you there’.  I guess it’s claiming that to achieve new goals, we need to make changes and do things differently.
I think that’s partially true, but it unfairly dismisses everything done to this point.

Actually, what’s come before, is the input to what comes next.

A better, though not as pithy, philosophy is “what got me here, will get me there, with effort”.   Our backgrounds give our context:  mine is different to yours, and we can both be successful by drawing on our experiences to launch into the next thing.