Desire Is Not Enough

“There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.”  – Anonymous

The world is so full of people who have tremendous desires which they whey wish to obtain by wishful thinking, or by having someone else make it easier for them. Such people who desire to become great can become great characters by making the necessary effort. That is the only way someone can become great. Desire alone is not sufficient.

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill

Every man who has ever become great becomes so only because he desired to, plan to, and made the necessary effort to become so. There are no accidentally great men. All great men build themselves in their own image. That which they become they first desire to become; they thought out, and planned every step upward to their own high mountain top. The great difference between all people lies not in their abilities but in the difference of intensity to express their abilities.

Moreover, everyone has become the image of their own thinking. He may not have become what he wanted because he may not have been willing to put forth the effort of becoming what he wants to be. In that case you see other characteristics in his features. You see weakness, frustration, vacillation and laziness there. You do not see in such a face the strength of a man who will go out to get what he wants with love of every effort of it. 

Everyone can reach the highest goal in life if he desires to and is willing to make the effort. Remember it is starting a task that requires more effort than continuing once the task is underway, and developing a state of mind of "I can" and "I will", builds the self-confidence to be able to start it. Those who are willing to make the effort will find that genius is self-bestowed, while the unwilling ones will find that failure is self-inflicted.

Furthermore, we have to realize that mankind, as a species, is not a completed being. Individuals must learn to develop further by their own efforts — if they don't then they lose the capacity for development. To develop or evolve in this instance means the development of inner-qualities. Our individual evolution depends on our understanding of what we can become and what we have to do to achieve this.

The Bottom Line

No heights can ever be attained by wishful thinking or desire not followed by the necessary effort and action. And whatever work you perform with deep desire, God will work with you by doing as much for you as you do to manifest Him. 

Gerard L. Ndzebir