I can't put into words the high and immediate self-esteem elevation that comes from knowing that you are financial free, intellectually capacitated through higher education, and building a top-tier reputation. It gives you something that your nervous system can't argue against: proof that your competency and capabilities have real impact in your life and the world around you. Understanding that you have options and agency will make your self-concept evolve much more than any form of affirmations or visualizations will, and as result, everything else begins to fall into place because desperation, inferiority complexes, and other forms of mental roadblocks become automatically lifted.