Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
“It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?”
“Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.”