Commit to the action. Release the outcome. When the order reverses, the goal consumes the work.

When your effort is conditional on a specific outcome, the outcome controls you. Every variable that affects the result becomes a threat. Attaching your emotional state to what you cannot control makes even the work you do feel precarious. The alternative is to invest fully in what you control and release what you do not. The goal can remain the direction without becoming the condition under which you work.