I know many people who put on efforts into wrong things and spend their entire life doing things which don't have much value in the grand scheme of things in the universe. I have seen that putting an effort into the right place would be good for the people who are planning on getting the most out of the hard work.
So how does putting efforts on right track works?
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You Validation the Monetization
Are you validating the monetization? You have to do things for money some of the time and if there is less money or no money then you have to avoid doing that thing. So you validate the money making capability of that and then decide if doing that sort of things is worth it or not. So it's pretty easy to know if it's right effort or useless effort thing.
You Validate the Fame
Are you doing this for fame or attention or the social interaction? If none of that is achieved then you would end up thinking that part. So you have to validate what you want out of the actions that you take. So if you are into social media validation then you have to take similar action to reach the people.
You Validate the People Connection
Are you doing this to connect with more people? Are you doing this to improve your networking? What is that you are achieving with new connection. You have to validate the outcome of that social interaction. And you have to find out if that is worth your time. So based on that you can guess if it is worth it.
Are you feeding the ego?
Sometimes you keep playing the losing match because of ego. You keep doing something because of ego despite knowing you are not getting anything out of the same. So you have to find out if your action has reality check or the ego check. This is what most of the people don't understand and end up feeding the ego.
Sometimes we learn if we are feeding the wrong thing and other people too let us know if we are doing the wrong things and feeding it the wrong way. So you have to focus on what you do first before coming to that decision.
Conclusion
You put on effort without calculating the zero sum game of the efforts that you can have from the actions.So keep putting on the right efforts and realize if they are right or wrong by checking some earlier signs.
Do you know how to recognize if the effort is put into right or wrong thing?