Some problems need a telescope and some need a microscope. Using the wrong one makes everything blurry.

Difficulty is often a matter of scale rather than of effort. Zooming in on something that needs perspective turns a small setback into a crisis, and zooming out on something that needs detail lets a fixable error keep repeating. When a problem resists you, the trouble is sometimes the distance you are standing at.

With whatever is stuck right now, deliberately try the other lens. Ask how this looks across a year, then ask what the single next physical step is. One of those two usually clears the fog, and it is rarely the one you were already using.