Sometimes, I can act like I will make it even when I've not made it yet, simply by having this blueprint idea in my head on how to make it.
I think finding the how for whatever hard tasks one wants to solve is a good confidence and belief booster without necessarily getting firmly into delusional territory.
The issue is usually reality: it will always take much longer than expected to play out, barring also any unforeseen catastrophes or sudden pivots.
I tend to categorize the journey into two buckets in terms of eventually getting there: Time and Effort. While time is a constant, the lack of effort could remove the eventuality of ever actually arriving.
It's also the place I doubt myself. Can I keep putting in the effort? Or will I find a justifiable reason to not do so. Maybe take a break, pause, and resume with something entirely different? It's arguably a valid fear, thanks to the ever-changing nature of market trends and my own fluctuating interests.
If it's a matter of time, then patience is required. If it's effort, well, more input is needed to 1) solidify the fundamentals, 2) maintain progress, and 3) compound small wins into a final result.
I'd prefer ideally to do both, as patience without much work to do is "boring wisdom" that my curious mind can't handle. I mean, to do nothing is an easy thing to say and a hard thing to do.
In matters of ambition and long-term building, self-belief comes with experiencing incremental tangible traction.
Seeing the plan work in reality helps synchronize the logical "how" with the emotional "belief." It bridges the gap between knowing you can do it and feeling like you are actually doing it.
However, the mental game is tricky because emotions aren't as linear as the blueprint. I have to navigate the shifting motivations or rather changes in why I'm doing what I'm doing. On a high day, it's about passion.
On a bad day, it just defaults to sheer discipline and the refusal to let the blueprint go to waste.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is this: "Fake it till you make it" is often misunderstood as pretending to be something you aren't. But it could be less "fake" when there is an element of potential and the hows are already defined, and blueprint is being executed upon.
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