The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
After a storm comes a calm.
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.