Bread dough needs time in a warm place, not more punching. Some growth just needs a better environment.

Effort is not the only input, and it is the one people reach for when nothing is happening. Some things do not respond to more force at all. They respond to conditions: warmth, time, being left alone. Applying pressure to something that needed an environment just makes it tougher.

Ask whether what is stuck in your life is short on effort or short on conditions. Sleep, light, quiet, people who are good to you, a room that is not a mess. If it is conditions, spend this week changing one of those instead of trying harder.