It does not matter whether or not you’re going to make it, or succeed one day in the future. What matters is whether or not you were as highly productive and creative today as much as humanly possible, and whether or not you have lived up to your full potential, every single day, no matter what.

Don’t focus on the fact that you’ll never make it. Focus on being highly productive as much as humanly possible today, in the right direction, with disregard to whether or not you’re going to make it someday, or succeed in the future. 

In order to end up making huge progress over the long-term, you have to be willing and okay with making extremely small progress in the short-term, on the regular, aiming lower, and doing less than you expect of yourself and think you’re truly capable of or have the energy and motivation for. 

Just do the right thing, the best next action you can take, even if it gets you nowhere. Just do the thing that is good for you, important to you, or is beneficial to you, even if it gets you nowhere. Just do the thing that moves the needle forward, and leads to any amount of progress, however little, and improves you in any way, or makes things better in any way, or makes your life better in any way, even if it never pays off. Even if you will never get to see the fruits of your labor. Even if you will never succeed eventually. Even if you think you’ll never make it, no matter what you do, or how hard you try. Even if it’s unfair, and all the odds are stacked against you. Even if it’s totally hopeless. Even if it is really pointless to even try.

Just do it, as long as it is the right thing to do. The best and most productive and needle moving action you can take at the moment, given your circumstances, energy, and current resources, and what’s available to you.

Don’t attack yourself while trying to make a difference in your life, no matter what.

All of that self-loathing is because of excessive failure, suffering, pain, and procrastination that took place in your life in the past, that you might have been at least partially responsible for. Somehow, on some level, your mind thinks it’s your fault that you’ve been through all this in the past. Somehow, if you were better, you would’ve saved us all long ago, and managed to figure something out, that would make us no longer exposed to such levels of failure, pain, suffering, or lack of achievement or progress in our life. This happens even if all that ever took place in your past is absolutely and totally not your fault in any way imaginable. Even if it all happened through no fault of your own, and you cannot ever be held responsible for it in any way. This is all because of the effects of excessive pain, suffering, and failure, or lack of reward, achievement, progress, and happiness on your brain and nervous system, and your body. The self-loathing takes place due to excessive failure, pain, and suffering anyway, even if it is not true that you are responsible for it. Even if it is not your fault. Even if it is purely due to external circumstances, events, factors, and causes. Even if it is totally due to the negative environment or situation you’re currently stuck in, or have been stuck in long ago in your past, but not anymore, or have been stuck with from the start until now, and you have no idea when it will ever be over.

Do not defend yourself or respond to every argument made against you by your mind. Do not engage. Do not waste your time or energy, negotiating, fighting, arguing, or engaging with any of those self-loathing thoughts.

Focus on getting things done. Focus on being productive. Focus on being creative, to the best of your ability.

Focus on making a difference.

Focus on getting your life together, ending your suffering, and getting to the kind of life that you always truly wanted.

It’s time to be creative at this moment, as much as humanly possible.