Today is the most important day of your life.
Outcomes don't care how badly you want them. They care what you do. Decisions, actions, and skills produce outcomes, not feelings. Feelings are optional. They can be a helpful source of fuel, and often are. They can also get in your way, and often do. But no matter how good your decisions, actions, and skills are, the outcome you want is never guaranteed. Other variables exist. Demanding a guarantee is how people disguise their excuse. Your job isn't to find a guarantee. It's not your right to get one, either. Your job is to build responses capable of producing what you want. What decisions, actions, and skills do those outcomes require? It's not a complex mystery. It's simple discipline. Make the leap. Do the work.