You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.