Indian mystics said that each moment lived in present is like a honey bee collecting honey in its nest (hive). It goes on adding up even after this life it will be with you till whole bunch of stored present moments gets full and the falls upon you to help achieve higher level of consciousness or energy chakra. Then again you need to collect and so on till Nirvana. So the journey is long but the first step is meditation. Lao Tzu said about it ‘A 1000 miles journey begins with first step.’

Very much agree that whatever effort you put in is never wasted and actually that is what you have earned being born as a human! Hindu’s call it Shubh Laabh. The profit that will remain with them even after their body’s death. It is wrongly used now a days on Diwali and mistakenly attached with Laxmi pooja ie worship of wealth/money.