Hitting the goal won’t fix how you talk to yourself. Bring that fix along on the way up.

Achievement changes your circumstances and leaves your internal commentary exactly as it was. Whatever voice tells you it was not enough will find new material at the next level, because the voice was never about the level. People assume the harshness will quiet down once they have proof, and it does not.

Work on the tone now rather than waiting for a result to earn it. Notice how you speak to yourself after a bad day and try saying it the way you would to a friend in the same spot. That is a separate project from the goal, and it does not finish on its own.