Complete effort, the great or supreme effort must be based on four ways of self-control these are,
1. the effort to prevent or avoid evil and an unwholesome state of mind from existing.
2. the effort to get rid of such evil and unwholesome state of mind that already existed within one’s self,
3. the effort to produce, cause good or wholesome states of the mind, not yet existed, to exist, and
4. the effort to develop and bring the good and wholesome state of mind already present in him to perfection and flourish.