The best way to predict the future is to design it.
I always say you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.