Hard Work Versus Smart Work

Yeah Ryan, I used to work hard, now I try to work smart, at least most of the time.

Thanks RB

In my early days as a manager, I quickly came to loathe "busyness" among staff. Looking busy is the biggest time-waster and least effective way to function. (I am very busy reading all the frivolous email "Fwd"s I receive; that is, I would be if I didn't delete them unread. Reading them would be most ineffective.)
"K.I.S.S" = "Keep It Simple SMART"!

hard work without smart work is nothing

Great post Ryan !!! I used to work really hard without knowing what I was doing and I ended up achieving nothing had to learn the hard way :p

Great feedback guys, thanks for sharing!

I like the Keep It Simple SMART piece

Ryan Biddulph

KISS is a great tool to use for work. I think working smart and working hard go together in order to achieve your goals. I plan my day just by thinking and planning 10 mins a day before I get started and now I am much more productive than ever before.

I think its really easy to say Just work Smart and you dont have to work hard. I hear it all the time actually, but what I fear is that people who rely on working smart and not hard wont actually ever get anything done.

At the end of the day, successful people must do both...work hard AND work smart. Ideally, they will work smart as they are working hard.

Working hard is essential, but as mentioned above, in itself will never get you anywhere. You must be smart about your hard work to be efficient and effective!

~ken

The word which I say over, and over and over: Effectiveness.

Effectiveness focuses on leveraging. Thinking through each task so it takes you a minimum amount of time yet creates a powerful impact.

This is smart work. It will take some time to become an effective worker, which is where the work part comes in, but don't work too hard! Force negates. 0.01% of people know AND practice this mindset but if you have a firm grasp of the law of attraction or universal forces, you know that hard work makes things harder on you. Being light about your work, using more mental effort and little physical effort brings the best results.

A contrarian viewpoint but all sages say that the easiest, least effortless way is the best. Along with this effortless way you must use mind power, and since sustained and consecutive thought is the hardest work in the world most cower from this intense, mentally draining act. I know that I do, on occasion

It's a task and frustrating to use mental effort and work light, but since going through this grueling practice like-minded people, business partners and money come to me with ease. It's worth it.

Ryan Biddulph

Yes, effectiveness. Effectiveness has everything to do with direction and purpose, your original goal and vision. If vision (and the concomitant goals) arise naturally out of Integrity--Who You Are, rather than what you happen to do--effectiveness is assured, not only as a end result (goal achieved!) but also every step of the way.

I'd say an important distinction is effort.

We often make the mistake of thinking working smarter not harder means not working hard, not giving 100 ****ing percent. I've found that it can quickly turn into a bull**** justification. So instead I try to see working smarter as playing to my strengths - something the most successful businessmen do painfully well.

It's always better to work smart. Even when people look at you weird and call you lazy or say you don't do anything cause you're out staring at the clouds... If you're thinking, meditating, organizing your thoughts to ensure you take the right course of action... You can be doing a lot more good and accomplish a lot more than if you just try to power through things without sorting things out...

Yes, I agree ryan. Applied to marketing - if it is my goal to sell toothpaste, I'd rather chose to advertise and cooperate with one dentist than with 100 flower shop owners

Good feedback here guys, thanks for sharing!

Ryan Biddulph