Put the work in

To be able to do it one must put the work in. If you want to get good at baseball, you gotta put the work in... If you want to be a great painter, you gotta put the work in...If you want to be a better driver, you gotta put the work in... If you want to get good at cooking, you gotta put the work in... If you want to get good at Aikido, you gotta put the work in...

Whatever it is the work must first get done.  That's nature's law.