I used to be a motorcycle safety instructor. One of the hardest concepts to train riders to do was to keep their eyes up and focused forward. Searching for possible hazards and looking onward to where they were going. Where you are looking is where you are going to go. When I was learning to ride, my motorcycle and I crashed into a big pothole right in front of me. My eyes were stuck on the pothole instead of looking up to find an alternate path of travel to avoid the pothole. Are you looking into a pothole? 

The present seems to never improve because we never give God the reins of our lives. All we need to do is pray. If we are in alignment with God, everything will work out without all the pressure we tend to put on ourselves.