The Law of Wasted Efforts is an important law of business and life management. It teaches you what cannot work. It allows you to understand what you’re not wired to do. You may think you’re wasting time but you’re piling on great business sense and acumen.

You’re finding out through experience what you could never discover in books or business schools.

The Law of Wasted Efforts helps you to develop capacity. While it can be frustrating and looks like you’re wasting time, you’re developing mental muscles. It may seem like all your efforts are wasted. Well, not quite. Nothing is really wasted.

Not your efforts, not your experience and not even your failures. They all go into a bank where you withdraw from your deposit and call them experience.

You will become a better judge of people. Your gut feelings will become sharper. You’ll be able to smell danger from a distance. This Law is one reason you may not succeed the day you set out. You won’t have it all figured out.

Things may not go as planned. You may lose money and your investments.

Your lack of success at the moment should not define you nevertheless. An awareness and recognition of this critical law of wasted efforts should spur you on to learn your lessons and try again.

(Okey Okoli, my friend and classmate in Secondary School, provided the inspiration for this article through a similar note he shared with our Class WhatsApp group)

Bayo Adeyinka

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