Working Hard for Fun and Profit
Highly successful people love to work hard. Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and other star athletes succeed because of 12-15 hours of practice per day. Bill Gates and most other self-made billionaires also work hard, long hours for years.
When you can work hard, you can accomplish great things. You have self-respect and pride. You have the horsepower needed to reach your goals.
Employees who work hard are priceless to business owners. When everyone in the group works hard all day long, you have a powerful, profitable, high-morale operation.
Those who cannot work hard are often good at inventing excuses.
Ten Excuses for Not Working Hard
1. "Everyone else is taking it easy."
2. "I thought we're supposed to work smarter, not harder."
3. "I have a medical condition."
4. "I'm a boss and bosses aren't supposed to work hard."
5. "It uses up my rare and valuable energy."
6. "I don't get paid enough."
7. "I don't have the time for it right now."
8. "Once the boss sees you can work hard, you have to do it all the time."
9. "I'm just too tired and don't feel like it."
10. "Hard work leads to workaholism."
Why Work Hard?
"Work is not always pleasant.
"But few are unhappier than those who lead a purposeless, idle and bored existence . . ."
"Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale." - L. Ron Hubbard from "The Way to Happiness"
Ten Benefits of Working Hard
1. No matter how you feel, working hard and accomplishing a lot of production makes you feel wonderful.
2. You make more money if your hard work produces something of value.
3. You are offered more promotions.
4. People follow your example.
5. You can do what most people cannot do and so move ahead of them.
6. You can use your hard work to build a future for yourself.
7. You get opportunities that lazy people do not get.
8. You can drown your sorrows, fears and unhappiness in good hard work.
9. You are not surrounded by incomplete projects.
10. You have unkillable pride.
Ten Ways to Work Harder
1. Decide to work hard for just five minutes to see how you feel. Then another five minutes and so on.
2. Focus on your purpose for the work. If it's a purpose you like, you'll have more energy.
3. Force yourself to get started. Once you have some momentum going, you'll get more done.
4. Consider the results and improvements for your future because of your work hard now.
5. Arrange for a reward for your extra hard work. For example, "As soon as I finish all these reports, I'll buy myself an expensive dinner." "I won't be going to the movies until I clean out the garage."
6. Break large tasks into smaller and smaller tasks until you feel comfortable about doing the first tiny task. Do it immediately. Then the next one and so on.
7. Tell three people you will accomplish a difficult task. This makes it more difficult to admit you failed than to just do the job.
8. Break a personal production record for no other reason than to break a personal production record.
9. Mentally do the entire task before starting so you know how to do it.
10. Realize you will be working for eight hours anyway. Why not work hard?
Summary
No one dies of hard work. In fact, according to an Australian study, hard work is healthy for you. It strengthens your internal organs, lowers your cholesterol and sharpens your mental skills.
Hard work makes you feel good about yourself. It helps you get over personal problems. It gives you something to be proud of.
All successful people can work hard. They push through or ignore their mental barriers. They complete projects as fast as possible and dive into their next project.
Hard work is vital to moral, superior accomplishment and high pay. It's the engine in your rocket to your goals. It pushes you above the average person.
No one succeeds without it.
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