Yes, but you might try very hard and still not move up. It's debatable whether it's better to "Fail never having tried at all" versus "Fail having tried as hard as you could".
That's also why "what you believe shapes what you achieve".
It might guarantee less pain.
Solve the equation and voila. Doing can be negative if your desired Y goes in that direction from your y-intercept. Remember, you can also control which way axes point.
This can be a multivariate function/equation. It can also have multiple dimensions. The important part is that all of it is definable by you.
Said like that the answer becomes obvious: It varies from situation to situation. Some bets are good and some are bad.