Until you’re blue in the face
That’s how it works. That’s how you make your mark. People are going to trod on you and use you if you let them. But if you’re proactive about it, if you put your best self forward and keep on doing that, not only will you feel satisfaction at having given your best, you give the world the best chance it has to see you for who you are.
An amazing person.
You keep doing you. Until you’re blue in the face.