“Full effort is full victory” is a famous saying by Mahatma Gandhi. (Mahatma means “great soul”)
What does it mean? What does it mean to you?
This is not some ‘everyone is a winner’ saying, or to say that winning is everything.
Instead, it speaks to what I have said is the meaning of life – “To be the best version of yourself in service to others.”
If I give my best effort, then I have done my best. I have done all I can do with what I have and who I am on that day, and I have probably learned something and become even better in the process.
If I don’t or am not giving my full effort, it could be because I am lazy, devious, cowardly (even to not have stepped toward what I was made for in the past, therefore suppressing my passion), or some other vice or easy way to get through life.
Full effort is full victory is a statement of you vs you, of conquering yourself and your lower impulses and nature.
Are you giving what you are doing your full effort?
Hell yeah!
Love this, Larry. Reminds me of this statement from John Wooden, one of the truly great winners of all time:
“Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”