The empty patch can be resting rather than waiting for your improvement.

Not every gap is a problem addressed to you. Ground left bare recovers, drains, holds seed, and does a great deal that looks like nothing from a chair by the window. The urge to fill it comes from a habit of reading emptiness as incompleteness, which is a useful instinct in some places and an exhausting one everywhere else. Some of the best decisions consist of leaving a thing alone for a season.

Find the blank space you keep planning to do something about. Ask honestly whether it is failing or simply fallow, and if you cannot tell, give it another month.