I was working my a$$ off
yesterday
and a dear friend flippantly told me
“Work smarter, not harder.”
My reply?
What is working smarter?
What should I be doing?
Do you know?
Because I’m working like hell
trying to figure that out.
It takes years
of hard work
to work smarter.
Yes, I share tips here
about what might help
but it is exactly it
— it MIGHT help.
You don’t know until you try it
and trying it means working hard.
“And so, before we start
calculating efficiencies,
what’s more important right now
is volume and momentum and rhythm.
Putting boots on the ground
so we can gain traction.
Cranking out piles of work
so that we might find
our authentic voice.”
The first step to working smarter
is working harder.
There’s no escaping the hard work
so get to it!
K, Highly probable that not many people could tell you what working smarter would mean for you.
But, consider this.
If your brain has the underlying belief that success is only achieved through hard work, is it possible that subconsciously your brain will miss opportunities to succeed without that much hard work (i.e. shortcuts)?
Check out this person: I am interested what you her about it and whether you think there could be something to this.
http://www.juliearora.com