What is Effort?

Effort Lesson #1

Effort is defined as “a vigorous or determined attempt.” Effort is the amount of work that one puts into something they are doing. They are many other ways to look at effort, but I see effort as the quote above. “How you do anything is how you do everything.” How you do the smallest task that you have is going to tell a lot about how you will do the larger tasks. If we can apply a vigorous attempt at the small details that is what makes someone successful. The attempt is the key as well because it does not say success or failure. Effort is separate from both those distinctions. Effort is simply the amount of personal force applied to an attempt. There will be cases in everyone’s life where they may apply a lot of effort to a task and may fail. I will say the people that develop the ability to apply the vigorous attempt regardless of if they will win or lose the attempt will be the most successful in life. Success will come from relentless attacks at all the different events in life. These are the players that will develop the most as an athlete as they will attack all the different aspects of athletics. Be a person who applies a vigorous attempt at anything in life, because that is how you will do everything else in life.