If you want a different result, change the setup, not just the effort.

Trying harder inside a broken arrangement produces exhaustion and the same outcome. Most repeated failures are structural: the wrong time of day, the wrong room, the wrong people around, the thing you need sitting three steps away. Effort is expensive and setup is cheap, yet people reach for effort first because it feels more virtuous. Design beats willpower almost every time.

Take the thing you keep failing at and change one physical condition about it. Move the time, move the place, remove the obvious distraction before you begin. Then try again with the same amount of effort and see whether the result moves.