Effort is movement, emotion and thought. Few dimensions mobilize both resource and energy as the small personal advances and triumphs we make on a daily basis to achieve a goal. Therefore, if there is one really important thing is to learn to value one’s effort without waiting for others to do so; regardless of disapprovals or criticisms that, far from helping, end up discouraging.
When was the last time you noticed anything?Do you have a project in mind right now? If there is one thing we all know is that living means always being on the move, generating change, promoting achievements, shapeing a reality that fits our needs. dreams or needs.
- Today we can aim to prepare a birthday party for our son.
- For example.
- Tomorrow we may have to deliver a project to work.
- And in a few months our main goal may be to participate in an interview.
Throughout our life cycle, small and great goals arise that force us to do our best. And this, as we well know, is not very easy, it involves time, involves setting certain things aside, requires suffering in most cases, and sometimes we even have to set certain filters on what surrounds us so as not to leave our dream behind.
It’s quite possible that some of our readers are familiar with R’s work. Tait McKenzie. This sculptor, doctor and athlete reflected the concept of “effort” in his works. Not only did he have business skills, but thanks to him, they laid the foundations for modern physiotherapy.
Thus, one of the ideas he always conveyed in his sculptures and in his own patients was that although every dream, sports goal or professional required a lot of effort and suffering, the brain must always be happy, the mind is certainly a powerful muscle. you can train.
? Learn how to manage your mood. You may be the most talented of them all, but if you let yourself be emotionally won’t get anything. -Jordan Belfort-
Learning to value one’s effort is the first step towards personal growth, is to walk the path of uncertainty, supporting the slope that is not far from our feet, understanding this is necessary for a very simple reason.
The path to a goal can be infinitely lonely, and it is common to receive criticism, it is common to perceive the distrust of a person close to us by suggesting that, perhaps, we will not be able to achieve our goal.
Thus, in order not to doubt more of oneself, it is worth understanding one aspect related to our neurobiology. The human brain was designed to “grow” with effort. In fact, renowned neuroscientists, such as Dr. Kelly Lambert of the University of Richmond, have published an interesting survey to inform us about a very particular brain region related to the same aspect.
There is a neural network that connects the accumbens nucleus to the striatum and prefrontal cortex. These areas were what Dr. Lambert called the “effort-based reward circuit. “What does that mean? Basically, when we combine action, thought and emotion to achieve a specific goal, the brain changes, motivates and something amazing begins to happen: neuroplasticity.
On the other hand, one thing that also reveals this research is that the value of effort itself is the secret to overcoming everything from depressive disorders to other complex psychological realities, factors such as movement, creative tasks and our thinking’s approach to a clear goal (recovery), in turn, promoting this neural awakening that can help us experiment with good improvements.
“The only thing that matters is effort” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-
Now let’s move on to a motto that, if repeated, resembles a mantra: “He who does his best always achieves his goal”. This message, which has undoubtedly been conveyed by self-help literature, has important nuances.
Sometimes society itself does not reward those who work hard, but those who choose, who receive privileges or who is more ? by chance.
Sometimes we fail, fail or achieve the success we thought we were achieving at the beginning, in fact, studies like the one conducted by Dr. Raimond Kusurkar from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 explain that motivation and effort improve student performance. .
However, this does not guarantee that 100% of them will always get good grades, there are many other factors that determine a grade and the student does not control them all.
So, and above all, there is one central aspect: to value one’s effort is to sow the foundations of self-esteem and self-love, is to learn not to rely on the opinions of others to sculpt our projects.
Therefore, every effort is growth, learning and added value, regardless of the outcome. All these skills are exceptional that no one can deny or take away from us.
After all, it doesn’t matter if the desired goal is achieved today or tomorrow, sometimes, on this path of effort and motivation, we find other paths, other objectives that may end up making sense at some point.
In this sense, the most important thing is to wake up always dreaming and never neglect the love of oneself through which we are proud of all that we have already achieved.