Two phrases with very different meanings but a common idea runs through both…. WORK!
If your like me, you’ve been spending your days trying to figure out the best way to work smart, so you can avoid working hard! ha ha. I don’t like to say it, but you all know what I mean. Hard work is exactly that, hard. It’s difficult it’s challenging and it’s easy not to do.
But…
Over the years it’s interested me more and more. I always thought that the guy who works smart will always finish ahead of the guy who just works hard. However, if you work smart without working hard how far are you going to really get?
As I’ve spoken about on my ‘About Me’ page, I’ve had the pleasure to meet some very successful people in the past year and those are the people that I always envisioned in my head as ‘work smart’ people. But after talking to them I started finding out a few things. I found out that a lot of them got up at 5 or 6am. That they worked so hard that sometimes they forgot to eat lunch! That they were so focused on their work that they missed sleep.
Now these guy’s and girl’s that are making it happen, many of them are already financially secure because of what their already doing. So why are they waking up at 6am and missing lunch and sleep to get more done and work harder?!… Well it’s because thats how they got there in the first place. They worked smart AND worked hard.
They worked on being as smart as they could with their work then focused on working on it as hard as they could. So now their making a success of it why would they stop? This was the most profound idea I had come across in a while. Combining working hard with working smart is in my opinion the number one, fastest way to making your endeavors, goals, dreams and life a massive success.
So that’s what I’ll be doing and I hope you consider doing the same.
Thanks for reading
This is some very good advice, people should work smart for sure but you have to work hard as well. So if you can figure out how to do both evenly then that is a recipe for success. People think that when you do this you are a workaholic but that simply is not the case. Workaholics work like this because they want to others work like this because they have to.
There are a lot of people out there that can’t seem to do both, work hard and work smart, I have watched a lot of people work really hard and struggle with the way they are doing things and I have watched a lot of people work smart and get a lot done because of it but they go slow and don’t work to capacity. Doing both gets you a successful business.
I agree that you must do both in order to be successful and work at your maximum to fulfill your potential!
I work smart and hard and my husband tells me that I am a workaholic because of it. I don’t take time off very often even when I am sick and I am the one that gets up at 5 a.m. and works until 6 or 7 in the evening. But I do it because I want to be a success and I want to provide things my family wants.
It’s fantastic that your working so hard and smart! But the key to success is the fact that everything has its place. I used to work even when I was relaxing and it equaled less productive work. Take breaks, eat regularly and have time away where you don’t even remember what your work is and it will do you a world of good. That’s what I’ve found.
Thank you sir, may I have another – not another whack (although I probably need one upside the head), but rather another inspirational video? I loved your other video montage about the message that Will Smith has been spreading to the world and through his biography (which is available on Amazon, for those who aren’t aware). It’s so true what this man is saying. We are living in the most prosperous time in history, but we’re also spoiled.
I definitely agree with that. Will Smith is a fantastic example of someone who has just got the balance spot on and I believe if we can all learn to do that then success will be waiting for all of us.