No matter how tough things get, I ll make my way.

Making a way usually means changing the way. It looks less like force and more like a detour sign you didn't want and take anyway.

Toughness gets pictured as pushing at the same wall harder. In practice most of it is flexibility — a willingness to arrive by a route you'd have rejected two years ago.

If something's blocked right now, stop asking how to break it. Ask what else gets you roughly the same place. Stubborn about the destination, loose about the road.