This is a society of instant gratification. All too often, when faced with what seem unassailable walls between where we are and where we want to be, we turn aside from our goals rather than find a way through or around those walls.
Make a decision to succeed, no matter what. Keep chipping away at those walls until you break through. If you need external validation to provide your motivation, you’re looking in the wrong place. Those on the outside looking in will never see the incremental growth that you’re making towards your goals and will think that you’re at a standstill when in reality the effort that you expend is constantly moving your closer to your goal.
Take a few deep breaths, picture your goal, then get back at it. It’s the only way you’ll ever get there.