One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Sometimes it seems like no matter how far you come you can never get ahead in life. You can't help but feel like the world always throws more and more things at you till you can't move forward, till you fall under the weight of it all. How do you pick yourself back up? How do you move forward? Why can't life be simple? 

If anyone out there knows the answers please do call. I'd love some answers.