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Is Working Hard The Key To Financial Stability?
Does working hard make your rich?
Successful?
Gives you freedom?
Last March 29-30 of 2018 it was a national holiday here in my country the Holy Week or Semana Santa. So me and the family agreed to stroll and drive by Mt. Apo National Park and explore nature.
While I was driving I saw this farmer carrying one sack of carrots on his back walking uphill and at the same time I saw another farmer carrying two sacks of carrots but he has a horse to help him carry.
It got me questioning, between the two farmers, who is working hard?
Another story I want to share is from an acquaintance of mine, he told me that he can’t believe his eyes when he saw one of his classmate way back in high school driving the latest model of his favorite car.
“How can that be?” He said…
He was not the smartest of the class and to be honest I’m much smarter than him 10x, so why does he has that car and I don’t have one
By this time I came to realized that working hard won’t make you rich and being the smartest won’t either.
So how?
Well I don’t know, but here is what I would do Instead of saying don’t work hard, work smart or vice versa. Why not do both?
Let me clarify…
In order for me to be good at something, I need to put in the work and when I say put in the work I really need to grind and hustle hard, as Charlie Munger said “To get what you want, you have to deserved what you want.”
Nothing is for free, so you have to sacrifice something to get something in return, maybe I could sacrifice an hour or two from watching movies and start studying, or I could just check my social media accounts once per day and focus on the task at hand.
Always sacrifice the things in your life that doesn’t add value to you, so don’t go sacrificing your family, friends, health, work, or your relationship with God for anything less.
Trust me, it’s not worth it…
Once you already mastered the skills you want, your next goal should be how can I produce the same results with minimal effort? You need to work smartly about this if you don’t, you end up burning yourself.
My conclusion
Don’t believe all the quotes you heard about working smart than working hard or don’t work hard, work smart. They don’t provide you enough context.
Always remember that you need to work hard and put in the effort to get what you want in life and after that you need to be smart enough to determine how can you get the same results with minimal effort.