I had this convo with a friend recently — you must try to avoid looping on whether you're "good enough" or "deserve" x, y, z. There's no authority that can answer that. There's no divine stone tablet for self-grading. This is a perniciously egotistic way to drive yourself insane.
https://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/1220862873942937602
For whatever it's worth, you have my permission to accept it as a given that you're a perfectly fine human being, and to avoid self-referential thoughts as much as possible. If you can manage it, you'll probably find yourself getting a lot more done and feeling quite a bit better
You also may make better choices, because "this is a thing I'd like to do/make" is a better reason for doing stuff than "this will provide evidence that I am good enough." I've met many people stuck doing variations of the latter, feeling unmotivated, tired & still insufficient
Feeling good about yourself often *follows* the doing stuff, and it's really upsetting to see people put the cart in front of the horse and then blame themselves for traveling at very low speeds
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