Sand in an hourglass only goes one direction. Stop waiting for it to flow back up.

Some situations restore themselves and waiting is a reasonable strategy for those. Time is not one of them, so hoping to get back to an earlier position spends the remaining supply on nothing at all. The direction is the one part that is fixed.

Identify where you are quietly waiting for conditions to return to how they used to be. Then plan from where things actually are now instead. Working with the current position is harder to start and it is the only version that moves.