A higher percentage of people around the world work as hard as they can daily only to get a few penny at the end of the day while the the other few percentage work less and earn big. We once had this renovation in my church in school and we decided to help in moving materials, bolcks equipments, I must say it was real hard work because those materials were heavy. Hours on the job we noticed on of our friend who wasn't doing any lifting and we were like guy come join us and he said his even doing the more harder job, supervising. He did gave us this illustration of people working in a building site, the labourers do all the hard work and get less pay while the contractors, engineers get the higher pay, we all laughed at the illustration terming him lazy. But this story got me thinking, life pays people that are smart more.
It not enough to work hard that determine your success you need to add alot of smart moves. I have friends who little or no time for there selves and if you ask them why they would tell you they are so busy. And am like cool, nice, Tumbs up, well done but the truth is that is you compare there effort and there result you would know there is a far difference. Am I say one should not work hard no, what am saying is that you channel you effort and resources towards the right direction. Working smart is figuring what your strength are and building a network around you to build upon those in either to reach goals in quickest and most efficient way as possible. This means that when you work hard and hard you would sure reach your goal but working smart makes to journey much more easier.
I know a majority of us are guilty of this, working hard without adding smartness to it this are some tips to help you.
1. Time yourself
Timing yourself could go a long way in helping you achieve your goals quickly. It not enough to say I would work hard to achieve this goal, give yourself a time frame so you would know whether you behind schedule or on track.
2. Don't start from scratch
As they say nothing is new under the sun. This means that whatever you trying to invent, creat, form or make someone has done it before. Instead of starting from the bottom why not do your research and improve from where the person had stop especially when a good foundation has been later.
3. Avoid multitasking sometimes
The truth is that alot of us combine work a lot, we get this email we want to quickly attented to it, this call and we want to pick it. Most time this activities makes us forget our real, major task at hand and makes us feel we working to hard. Focus and discipline is key. It cool to be spontaneous, flexible but avoid multitasking all the time.
4. Always set out a plan
I feel this is the most important of them all, don't just jump into a job, task. Set out your plan you do not need to do trayal by error, no what you want to achieve and how to achieve them.
5. Use you head
Your intellect is very important in your every day life it helps you to know when to say no, when to choose the right path or the right job as a matter of fact it helps you apply the above tips so use it as often as you can.
