If you have difficulties in making progress without understanding exactly why it is difficult to make progress, it is important to try to find out which components of various situations can bring about change. The further one moves away from something, the more possibilities one may have to move forward, but as a rule, fewer and fewer of them lead to the goal, making it continuously more complicated to reach it. This can lead to various views which you have to recognise for yourself before you are able to fight them accordingly.
