Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.
Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.
The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.
What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.
Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.