That voice in your head calling you useless has never once shown up with a plan. Stop handing it the mic.

The critical voice is loud, and loud is not the same as accurate. Real assessment comes with specifics and a next step; this one only ever delivers a verdict, repeats it, and offers nothing you could act on. That is the tell. Anything genuinely useful would say what to do differently rather than what you are.

You do not have to argue with it or win. Ask it for the plan and notice that it does not have one. Then go do the smallest real thing available, which is the only response it has never had an answer for.