The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Who seeks shall find.
After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.