Today I make a small positive effort. If the efforts that I make are not coming from a good place inside of me, they will get me nowhere. If I make negative efforts born out of attitudes that are not helpful, no matter how hard I work at them, it will yield little positive change in my life. Much less effort in the right direction will yield quicker and better results. If I calm and clear my mind so that, by slowing it down, I can actually see what is in it, I will get a feeling for what needs to be done and what direction would be most fruitful for me to take.

I make less but better effort.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart Mill