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We all want to be successful in one way or the other. Either by Fame, Relationship, Wealth or Power. But when it comes to putting the effort of making it possible, it becomes a very hard JOB to do. Then we called it a name HARDWORK.
Also we all know success to be the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, it does not matter the kind of success we have the good or bad outcome.
What's your definition of hard work?
Why is it that some people seem to feel that “hard work” is a dirty word
nowadays?
I define “hard work” as work that is challenging. Both hard work and
“working hard” (i.e. putting in the time required to get the job done)
are required for success.
A problem occurs when people think of challenging work as painful or uncomfortable. Does challenging work necessarily have to be painful? No, of course not. In fact, a major key to success is to learn to enjoy challenging work AND to enjoy working hard at it.
Why challenging work? Because challenging work, when intelligently chosen, pays off. It’s the work that people of lesser character will avoid. And if you infer that I’m saying people who avoid challenging work have a character flaw, you’re right… and a serious one at that. If you avoid challenging work, you avoid doing what it takes to succeed. To keep your muscles strong or your mind sharp, you need to challenge them. To do only what’s easy will lead to physical and mental flabbiness and very mediocre results, followed by a great deal of time and effort spent justifying why such flabbiness is OK, instead of stepping up and taking on some real challenges
Tackling challenges builds character, just as lifting weights
builds muscle. To avoid challenge is to abandon one’s
character development. It's all about knowing yourself.
Now it’s natural that we’ll tend to avoid what’s painful, so if
we see challenge as purely painful, we’ll surely avoid it. But in
so doing, we’re avoiding some very important character
development, which by its very nature is often tremendously
challenging. So we must learn to fall in love with challenge
instead of fearing it, just as a bodybuilder can learn to love the
pain of doing “one more rep” that tears down muscle fibers,
allowing them to grow stronger. If you avoid the pain, you
miss out on the growth. This is true both for building muscles
and for building character.
There’s the alternative way of looking at life with you as the
driving force behind it. You create and control the flow
yourself. This is a more challenging way to live but also a much
more rewarding one. You aren’t limited to those experiences
that can only be gotten passively or painlessly — now you can
have much more of what you want by being willing to accept
and take on bigger challenges.
If I only went with the perceived easy flow of my life, I’d
never have learned to read, write, or type; those were all
challenges where I felt I was going against the flow of what
was easy and natural. I wouldn’t have gotten any college
degrees. I wouldn’t have started my own business. I most
certainly wouldn’t be doing any public speaking.
When you step up and learn to see yourself as the driver of your life
instead of the passive victim of it, then it becomes a lot easier to take
on big challenges and to endure the hardships they sometimes
require. You learn to associate more pleasure to the character
development you gain than the minor discomforts you experience.
You become accustomed to spending more time outside your comfort
zone. Hard work is something you look forward to because you know
that it will lead to tremendous growth. And you eventually develop
the maturity and responsibility to understand that certain goals will
never just flow into your life; they’ll only happen if you act as the
driving force to bring them to fruition.
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals,
you have to learn to fall in love with hard work. Hard work
makes the difference. It’s what separates the children from
the mature adults. You can keep living as a child and
desperately hoping that life will always be easy, but then
you’ll be stuck in a child-like world, working on other
people’s goals instead of your own, waiting for opportunities
to come to you instead of creating your own, and doing
work that in the grand scheme of this world just isn’t
important.
When you learn to embrace hard
work instead of running from it,
you gain the ability to execute on
your big goals, no matter what it
takes to achieve them. You blast
through obstacles that stop others
who have less resolve. But what is
it that gets you to this point? What
gets you to embrace hard work?
PUT SOME PURPOSE INTO WHAT YOU DO
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an
option. It’s a necessity. If your life has no real purpose, then
you can avoid hard work, and it won’t matter because
you’ve decided that your life itself doesn’t matter anyway.
So who cares if you work hard or take the easy road? But if
you’ve chosen a significant purpose for your life, it’s going to
require hard work to get there — any meaningful purpose
will require hard work.
You have to admit to yourself then that the only way this purpose is going to be fulfilled is if you embrace hard work. And this is what takes you beyond fear and ego, beyond the sniveling little child who thinks that hard work is something to run away from. When you become driven by a purpose greater than yourself, you embrace hard work out of necessity. That child gets replaced by a mature adult who assumes responsibility for getting the job done, knowing that without total commitment and lots of hard work, it’s never going to happen.
DESIRE MELTS ADVERSITY
Show me a person who avoids hard work, and I’ll show you
someone who hasn’t found their purpose yet. Because anyone
who knows their purpose will embrace hard work. They’ll pay
the price willingly.
If you don’t know your purpose yet, then in the world of mature human beings, you don’t yet matter. You’re just a piece of flotsam on the flow created by those who do live on purpose. And deep down you already know this, don’t you? If you want to make a difference in the world, then hard work is the price. There are no shortcuts.
Purpose and hard work are buddies. Purpose is the why. Hard
work is the how. Purpose is what turns labor into labor of
love. It transmutes the pain of hard work into the higher level
pleasure of dedication, commitment, resolve, and passion. It
turns pain into strength, eventually to the point where you
don’t notice the pain as much as you enjoy the strength.
Once again it all comes down to purpose. Create a purpose for
your life, and live it each day. And many of the other success
habits like hard work and working hard will fall into place
automatically. Figure out the why. Why are you here? Why
does your life matter? That is the ultimate test of your free
will.
NOTHING WORTH HAVING COMES EASY, WORK FOR IT. DIP INFO
