The highest form of self-love is discipline.
Staying consistent is not easy, but it gets easier.
“There is no such thing as a loser. In the cycle of nature, there is no such thing as victory or defeat, there is only movement. There are only stages that one needs to go through.” Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain.
Confident, independent, detauched from the outcome, and not overly accomodating (don’t burden yourself with responsibilities that are expected, but not required of you).
Systems replace systems. The question is not what you remove. The question is what takes its place.