Hard work crucial for success?

Certain activities scheduled and forced at a regular interval, are conditioning you in a way, that its accomplishment becomes automatic - you create a habit. However, be careful: conditioning and forcing yourself also cuts your time you may spend spontaneously and freely. It could end in a personal dressage and may reduce your degree of freedom. Be aware of this fact.

What I mean: creating a regularity of time management activities like checking emails at certain fixed times or by a special method or other similar advice. Carefully decide what is really beneficial in your unique working environment. Critically check all the well meant advice from various time management experts.

The time management approach that I present on my website too demands a continuous and permanent scanning of your tasks, conditioning you as well to create a habit. However, it is a habit, that takes care at most of your freedom.

For many, maybe most people putting extreme forces on themselves is a habit stemming from outdated believes of the past two centuries. Working hard is still a prayer for many people in job and business that want to reach certain goals. Who wants to upload pain (hard work) voluntarily?

However, at hard work I always see really hard working men and women that never reach substantial wealth. Of course I believe, that people working hard, came to outstanding success too, but I think it is the minority of the successful.

Success is possible only by pain (hard work), the more the better, is an unintelligent mindset, and a dangerous doctrine. Many successful people demonstrate the opposite. What seems to be overlooked is, that people reaching extreme success are often not working hard – they simply know what to do next within the chain of results-oriented tasks and do this task undeviating and consequently.

And the reason for their success is the use of a clever strategy. Some natural strategic talents use it unconsciously. Others, for example, apply the EKS (TM) Strategy. A supporting tool to turn hard work into smooth work is the TAO Timing method.

Therefore, don’t work hard, even if important personalities preach this. Be consequently, forcefully, apply persistence. Every moment knew your situation. Decide out of this situation and do the next step. If this is hard work for you, ok then keep this term.

For me, it sounds better, to say: I have reached my goals by a clever (strategic) use of my resources, then to say: By working hard, I put much energy into my project to reach my success. That is the difference between David and Goliath.

Act cleverly and powerfully!