You can’t always out-work a bad situation. Sometimes you have to out-wait it.

Effort solves problems that respond to effort. Some situations are not of that kind: a rota you do not control, a group that will break up at the end of term, a stretch of life that simply has to pass. Pushing harder at those drains you and changes nothing. Waiting well is a different skill, and it is not the same thing as giving up.

Ask whether what is in front of you has a date on it. If it does, work out what gets you to that date in reasonable shape and put your energy there instead. Keep one thing going that is genuinely yours while you wait.