Effort is not a very popular word today. Many people, including me, expect instant rewards for minimal or zero effort.
I have just come across a new product online called "The CHEAT'S GUIDE to INSTANT GENIUS! Uncover your inner genius - no effort required!"
To be fair, the advertisement does suggest later that some effort will be required. Being one who does not like to waste effort if effort is not necessary, I have already bought a copy!
Today, you can write articles and even books without writing them. Just use the software which is widely available to mix up the words of others into an article or chapter which will avoid copyright infringement enough for you to be able to publish the results as if they were your own.
You might prefer to hire a ghostwriter who will do the necessary research and write your book or most of it for you. You can buy private label rights books and articles for which you can claim authorship without doing any 'authoring'.
You can buy ready made meals which you can pass off to your friends as the results of your own 'expert' cooking. Just make sure you dump the packaging, as the ads tell you to, before your guests see it!
However, none of the above can match the satisfaction and the value of making the effort to write your own articles or books or the pleasure of learning how to cook a decent meal. Effort can produce almost anything. Leonardo Da Vinci said or wrote:
"Oh God! You sell us everything for the price of an effort!"
The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper were probably the result of much more than effort, but effort was definitely part of the package. Few artists took the pains to master their craft that Leonardo did.
It has been suggested that part of his motivation was the fact that he was illegitimate and felt the need to outshine those who believed they were superior to him because they were born within wedlock.
Recently, the film 'The Secret' has been misunderstood to mean that good things come to those who think about them without taking any action or effort to achieve them.
The film is based on the law of attraction which states that we attract what we think about most whether it is good or bad.
In fact, thinking daily about what you want rather than what you don't want will make your actions much more effective as you set goals and take action to achieve those goals.
Effort and action will still be necessary but taking action will no longer be like driving with the hand brake on. Right thinking will clear away the subconscious obstacles that prevent your progress towards your goals.
It still takes effort to think and focus on what you want rather than what you don't want. Writing your goals down is one way in which you can use the effort of writing to facilitate the working of the law of attraction.
Writing your goals down clarifies your thinking and helps you focus on what you really want. It also programs the subconscious mind to achieve your goals.
Try to write your goals down daily or, at least, weekly and the images associated with achieving your goals will begin to loom large in your mind and encourage you to follow through until you can actually celebrate achieving your dreams.
Christopher Westra, one of the clearest exponents of the law of attraction, states that writing your goals down will set up 'a field of vibration that attracts the people, situations, and resources you need to fulfill your dreams.'
The power of the mind is enormous and so is the power of effort. Why not use both? Focus daily on what you want by writing and rewriting your goals down every single day and then start taking action, step by step, to achieve those goals.
Several quotes from Leonardo, like the ones below, stress the importance of taking action:
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
You may not produce the Mona Lisa or The Last Supper when you take action on your goals but you may well create something which is original and valuable to others as well as to yourself.
An anonymous author has summed up the importance of using your own talents whether they match those of a Leonardo or a Mozart or not:
"Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
We often don't realize that we have as much talent as others so we don't make a serious effort to achieve our goals. We think we lack the talent or ability.
If we start making serious efforts to reach our dreams, we may well astonish ourselves and others and even discover talents which we did not realize we possessed.
Let's think daily about what we want and write our goals down as often as possible. We should also write down the steps to achieve our goals and make the effort to follow through on our own plans and blueprints for action.
We will then become the ones who make things happen or, as Leonardo put it, happen to things.
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