Frank Thoughts: Don’t Just Work Hard Work Smart
Being Human
As we are fast
approaching the end of the year, it is paramount to equip ourselves ahead of
the following 24 months. Also, mind you that some things ought to be basic routine
practice and not just what we do at each turning of a new year. In this sense,
I am simply trying to charge us to be proactive and deliberate in most if not
all our endeavors: life, work, or business. Today, our focus is majorly on how
we can achieve a better result through our work and business.
As humans, there are
so many expectations placed on our shoulders, and one of such is delivering
results. In most cases, the way we go by this as an employee or even a business
owner says so much about how far we can go. There is a great gap that exists
between working hard and working smart. On the one hand, When you work hard,
you are exerting energy, time, and other resources towards an end result. While
on the other hand, when you work smart, you are not only exerting physical
strength but you have gone the extra mile to adopt intellectual ability and other skills needed towards
the same endpoint. In retrospect, both are not expected to yield the same
result, don’t you agree? I am going to narrow ways through which one can work
smart into three: self-actualization, planning, and development.
Self-actualization
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Actually, this should
be the first on the list of everyone when charting a cause for themselves in
life. Some do call it life goals or self-discovery. This goes a long way to
determine where you have found yourself presently, why you are there, and where you
intend to be in many years to come. The time you realize your set goals in
life, that moment you feel as though you have come alive again because it keeps
you focused and undeterred.
Planning
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The minute you are
done discovering yourself, you then chart a road-map towards everything you do.
You don’t just take up opportunities be you an employee or invest in any
business if you are self-employed. Your life revolves strictly around the goal you have created. This goes down to planning your daily, weekly, monthly, and
yearly activities that you don’t find yourself at the wrong place at the right
time. Take for instance, as an employee, you must have planned where you intend
to work, for how long, and how you intend to climb in each organization. Also,
as a business owner, you must have tabled out investments in target or even
profit per time. Additionally, by chance, you land in a place due to circumstances,
take out time to study the area, adjust to your setting, and pick up that dream
where you left it.
Training and
Development
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Some call this learning and development. It is too obvious with the way the world is evolving, you can’t just rely on what you feel you know because there is a tendency that your theory has gone out of age, and as a result, you need new skills and training to sharpen your line of action. As an employee, you need training for promotion or to move up that managerial role. If you are a business owner, you also need the exposure or network of people, additionally, to learn new ways of handling your business for a more positive result.
Note that due to the high demand for
services, and the pressure to meet up, it could be quite difficult to create
time for training or undertake courses, but as I tell so many people: there is
always a way around everything, and remember to cascade your needs and wants on
a scale of preference. Always have this at the back of your mind: while working
for yourself or that organization, no matter the number of years of experience
you have, you require some skills to meet up with the changing trend, and you
can’t certainly sit on time because it obviously waits for no one.
It is high time we stopped depending on our strength because a lot today is dependent on the mind, and we ought to follow it as it comes.
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