Effort is a false idea that causes grief. I am X. I need to be Y. To get from X to Y takes effort. 

But no creation happens through effort! Effort is a concept of the collective ego. It creates psychological time--Now and Then.

It takes the form if If effort Now,

Then gain Then (in the future). 

But that is not how life works! Life is creative! Either we inhabit the moment or we don't. 

When we are trying, when we are using effort, when we are subjecting ourselves to all the rules and institutions of society: school, college, marriage, family, and so on, we are using a tremendous amount of effort in order to be successful. We are rewarded for that in social terms. But we are not living the creative life. We are living in psychological time.

Psychological time separating the Now and the Future creates effort. And effort destroys the beauty of the moment. 

There is this moment--now. Can we accept this moment? That accepting can be incredibly painful. We must learn to accept the present, accept the painfulness of being in present time. And wait patiently for its beauty to be revealed to us. 

That is improv. 

May the pulse be with you!

Abhay