Usain bolt won 8 gold medals in 3 olympics and he only ran for less than 115 seconds on the tracks, earning $119 million. For those 2 minutes, he trained for 20 years. That’s investment.
Work hard and you can achieve anything. That’s a bit of advice that’s been repeated to us so many times that it’s sort of lost its meaning. The problem is that we already feel like we are working hard, but for many of us, it seems like we aren’t getting anywhere.
So, is that advice complete bunk?
I would argue that it isn’t. Rather, I think what’s gone amiss is the definition of hard work.
The thing about trying to nail down a definition of hard work is that, as I mentioned, most of us already believe we are hard workers. We went to college. We got good grades. We got jobs. We did exactly what our fathers and high school guidance counselors told us to do. We get out of bed, we go to work, we pay our bills, we keep ourselves and our homes neat and tidy, and we go to bed each night feeling somewhat exhausted.
But the problem with that conception of hard work is that it’s not what all those successful people meant when they gave you the advice “work hard and you can achieve anything.”
Working hard is important but working smart is more pivotal. For most successful people, the hard work that they put forth included all of the following:
The Drive
The Plan
The Grind
The Sacrifice
The Payoff
Working hard and being Successful shouldn’t be Success vs. Happiness rather it should be success that comes with happiness and satisfaction. A person should always remember ‘One For The Kitchen, One For The Soul.’
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