The work you are proud to repeat matters beyond the result you hope to announce.

Results get announced once and then absorbed quietly into the past. What remains is the doing of the thing: the mornings, the method, the kind of attention it asks of you. If those days are only bearable because of what they might produce, you are paying continuously for a moment that lasts an afternoon. Work you would gladly repeat pays you as you go.

Ask whether you would still want the ordinary days of this if nobody ever heard about the outcome. Where the answer is no, look first at changing the days rather than abandoning the goal.