In the movies, at the part where things are the toughest and the heroine is just about ready to give up, she does not have a meltdown and check out for an extended mental vacation. Nor does she sit down and stuff Doritos into her face until the Bad Things go away. No. She grits her teeth, blows her hair out of her face, and she saves the day.
Then she can inhale those Doritos. 
The question is: how does she save the day?
She could put forth more effort, but she needs to make sure that more effort will really save the day. She has to know that it’s just a matter of degree. Or, she could put forth a different kind of effort, because she knows that if something isn’t working, more of the same isn’t going to help.
Most of us naturally are going to feel like more effort is the answer. We like to think we’re on the right track but if things aren’t going our way, well, we’re just not trying hard enough.
But I bet that probably what’s needed is a different approach altogether. If you’re not getting the results you want, you don’t need more of the same than ever before, you need something different.
Cut back to our heroine: she didn’t save the day by herself, did she? That’s not how it works in movies, is it? No, she had a team of allies. One of those allies may have helped her earlier in the movie by being a mentor to her. The mentor gave her something she couldn’t give herself: a different way of seeing things. The mentor didn’t have the same blind spots she did. The mentor had experience she didn’t. The mentor knew how to get her to realize the truth for herself, not just tell her what to do. The mentor taught her how to get past her own constraints, which freed her to become the heroine that saves the day in the end.
So… who’s your mentor?
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.