This question is quite an interesting one to answer. I personally don’t ever think things are hopeless! Plans don’t always work out, so you come up with new plans. When things aren’t going as planned (not really hopeless but a general proxy for that) you have to dig deep down to why you do whatever it is you do. Your WHY…if your WHY is big enough, it will get you over this hump. It could be to be able to put your kids through private school or top university, it could be you want to retire your wife/husband/partner or your parents. Or it could be you want to impact 100,000+ people or 1M+ people. All of those are huge reasons to be motivated whenever things are down, just focus on that and you can usually figure it out!