Blueberry Picking

Aeleli and I had a wonderful afternoon happily plucking ripe blueberries. It was a peaceful time of choosing the bluest berries and dropping them into our plastic ice-cream buckets with a small but definitive "plunk!" As we made our way around the bushes, we began to cover the bottom of our buckets with the pleasant fruits. As we neared a close, I noticed that, while half of my bucket's bottom was concealed, hers was completely so. I asked her what her secret was, and she showed me. "There's more on the inside of the bushes," she said. And she was right. I had been going around the outer edge of the bushes and picking what blueberries I could see. But she knew what it was to delve deeper--to work a little more and reap greater results. You reap what you sow, right? Well, if you sow a little labor, you get a small harvest. But what if you sow a lot?
As hard-set as I often am against working (because it isn't "fun", boo-hoo), she taught me a truth I've failed to see too many times before: Working harder pays more splendid results than working easy. Her twice-as-full bucket showed me so. When it comes to working for the results worth working for, how often do we just scratch the surface of what we could really be and find and do?