If you want to avoid criticism, create less. If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more. - James Clear

Self-talk strategies:

If you need confidence, talk to yourself the way you would talk to a friend.

If you need persistence, talk to yourself the way you would talk to a student.

If you need patience, talk to yourself the way you would talk to a child.

What you do on your ordinary days determines what you can achieve on your extraordinary days.

Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them.