In the place where I come from, you are not expected to live a comfortable lifestyle if you are not a hard worker, so parents tell their children every day that they have to work hard all the time, they have to increase their pace and strength and just keep working hard. As a child I was told that I need to work hard all the time if I wanted to achieve any success at all but as I got older, I realized that those who worked hard the most in the society were not even the wealthy ones, we see people who sleep for only three hours every day they work all through the remaining hours but they are still living in a state of extreme poverty.
These hard workers also believe mostly that life is not being fair to them so they act frustrated all the time, they work that hard to eat and they are the ones who look for little opportunities to defraud other people, carrying a sad and frustrated face around all the time. There is a difference between doing the right thing and doing things the hard way, life becomes easier and even your job becomes really easy when it is done in the right way and with the right energy.
There are other people that record much more success and they are not even taking life as hard as you are taking it, this is because they understand smart ways to work that will yield better profit for their business, hard work has never been a guarantee for success and it will never be. It is necessary to understand how the work will be done appropriately using the right instruments, then the right result will be obtained.
Life does not have to be as hard as you take it, going around with the world’s problem on your mind will not ascertain total happiness but happiness can be guaranteed only through the decision to succeed, make progress and going through appropriate routes. Everyone has productive hours when they get more active, smart people realize this active hours and make good use of it then they get real productive results than someone who is constantly trying to work round the clock without getting any rest.
That attitude of pushing yourself too hard results in having a failed relationship all the time, absence of good health and at the end of the day, there is nothing to even show for the excessive stress you have put in. I believe it is more wise to learn how to work smart than spend your entire life working hard.