Tomorrow respects work completed before tomorrow was watching.

Effort put in while nobody was paying attention is what makes later ease possible. The results show up eventually, but the work that produced them happened long before anyone was measuring, and often before you had any evidence it would matter. Tomorrow does not care whether the work felt worthwhile at the time.

When you are working without feedback or recognition, resist reading the silence as a verdict. Ask instead whether the work is the kind that compounds. If it is, keep going, and let the results arrive on their own schedule rather than yours.