Life is a permanent dynamic of activities that human beings undertake to survive and achieve goals. Some of these goals are easily achieved, but others require greater effort, which many are unwilling to make.
There is no human being who does not feel driven to move and act to survive and achieve goals. This dynamic is a normal part of our daily life, since we have needs and desires that we try to satisfy. In addition, we are driven by curiosity, initiative and will.
Some of these objectives are easy to achieve, while others impose on us the need to apply more sophisticated strategies and to invest greater efforts to achieve them. Not everyone, however, accepts the price that must be paid to fly higher.
Resistance to effort is a fact that is intensified today by the facilities provided by technology and modern culture "all comfort." But it is the law that whoever refuses to sow has no right to reap, because whoever does not pay the price loses the option of winning the prize.
And I do not mean here exhausting bodily efforts that can affect health, No! but rather to the necessary consistency, to the strength that anyone who wants to get out of poverty and overcome mediocrity must show, without expecting some ruler to resolve their existence.
Everything good, everything that has quality, costs. Paul Meyer used to say that finding gold requires removing a lot of earth from the mine.
In that sense and in metaphorical language, I have said in my book The Message of the Wise Men (Jupiter Editores), that the bigger the bite, the more times you have to chew it, that the muscle becomes strong with exercise, and that to do not sink in the water, you have to stay in motion. The truth is, there is no such thing as free food.
So if we want to be successful and achieve a prominent place in society, we must accept the need for effort. You have to do what you have to do.
When preparing to give birth, the woman suffers and struggles; the sower must cut furrows in the earth, water the plants and protect her crops, before collecting the fruit of her labor. Athletes train long hours a day in a conscious and constant effort to become Olympians. Graduating from college or saving for your own home requires sustained motivation.
Thus, rejecting the obvious need for effort is unproductive and unrealistic.
The effort does not weaken, rather it strengthens, as long as it does not border on excesses. For good health, this must be combined with fun and rest to create the perfect balance.
This renunciation of life light, this idea of valuing the power of effort (intelligent effort), is not well seen by some, who rather advise “flow”. But the records are not broken by flowing, but by working hard. I recently learned of a brain surgery that lasted 12 hours. Pure knowledge, concentration and effort.
The popular proverb assures that "what belongs to the priest goes to the church," and that what belongs to one, no one can take away. But there are other contrary ideas: "nothing belongs to anyone as long as there is someone else who craves it", and "the one who wants blue, may it cost him". We can settle for the medium, the basic, or the elemental, or swim deep into the deep where the pearl-filled oysters are.
Nadia Comaneci, the famous Romanian gymnast who won five Olympic gold medals, and nine in total, and who was the first to achieve the perfect score of 10 in an Olympics, was not considered one of the greatest gymnasts of the 20th century and of all times, but by the work of a colossal effort.
In my point of view, flow is accepting what cannot be changed, when you have previously done what is necessary to change it. Let us accept that we have great potential that most of the time falters in the face of apathy, ease, and resignation. We must abandon the idea of being, as Antonio Blay has said, 100 bulbs lighting 20.
My invitation is to accept that significant achievements require greater efforts. Assuming it and getting ready to carry it out allows us to learn, experience and succeed. Thanks for reading me.
