I've learned not to let myself get intimidated or overwhelmed especially when it comes to my writing life. There's no need, especially now, when this is all just so new and fun (and NOT work!) that I need to see all these other writers that didn't quite make it, and see myself in that position, and get discouraged by it. Besides, that's not even the goal. The goal is to finish a project that I start. Only after I do that a couple of times do I get to be worried about anything to do with the publishing world.