Life is hard sometimes, but it is often the case that if you try too hard to achieve something, you make your chances worse rather than better. Determination is good, doggedness is useless.

Your life is full of ramifications. For everything you want to achieve, there are fundamentally different ways to reach your goal. If you are too determined to achieve something, you sometimes stand in your own way and block your chances of success. Every now and then you should take a step back and let life take its course.

Even though you should take charge of your own happiness in life, there are larger forces at play that you have no control over but that influence your life's path. You should pursue your goals with determination, but must occasionally give them time to happen in their own time. 

The more doggedly you chase after a goal, the more desperate you will become if it doesn't work out immediately. Despair leads to negative energy, frustration and disappointment, which block the positive aspects of your life. To achieve your goal, you need a little faith in life. Enjoy your life, relax and take action when necessary.

A perfectly natural reaction when you don't achieve what you're aiming for is to work all the harder and more doggedly at it. But this only leads to stress and worry and fuels your pessimism. Your life is the mirror of your subconscious. What you believe in your subconscious is reflected in reality.

Take control of your life, but don't become a control freak, especially when it comes to things you can't influence. Sometimes you should sit back and let life take its course.