Things happen and a lot of the things that happen are hard to understand, especially when you see someone work so hard but their efforts seems to be ineffective in yielding inspiring results.
Situations like that makes you ask certain questions but the starting point of everything is for everyone to make genuine effort.
I like how part of your plan involves doubling down on your efforts. We owe it to ourselves to do our best in everything we do. When we do that, it will be left for life to give us what it has in store for us.