Today i have a discussion with one of my friend wheather we should do smart work or hard work. I know every people have their own opinion, some believe in hard work or some believe in smart work and their are some more people who believe in both like me.
But before let us know what exactly this mean i.e. what is the difference between hard work and smart work. In my opinion hard work is that which comprise skills which are accomplished through physical capabilities. Therefore hard work means when u don't use your brain and do the work in the traditional way as all have done earlier and doing now also putting all our efforts whereas smart work requires mental capabilities to get the work done like creative approach , doing some initial study over the work assigned,using new ideas.
Smart work and hard work depend upon work to work like in the field of accounts people can't do smart work they have to do hard work in order for current entry and check each and every step, so here smart work does not fit whereas in the field of sales and marketing people has to act or work like a smart in order to generate the sales and give awareness and give market position to their company product. I would not say that in this case also be have to do hard work but the percentage of hard work is much less than the smart work, if you are working smartly and have great ideas then definitely you are on the edge when compare to others i.e. chances of your winning will be more when compare to person who are doing hard work.
Many times i have heard that people believe that smart work basically means following very shortcuts, doing buttering to your boss, do all their work etc in short what ever the boss say we have to agree weather it is true or not and frankly speaking people really do all this rubbish thing in order to make their boss happy. But i don't think in that way because ultimately its your work which count and for me it gives me satisfaction "Yes" i got appreciation for my work only weather i have done that work in a smarter way or in a hard way. As already mention smarter work means generating ideas, knowledge but not buttering.
Some people do only hard work and get lot of time to prove themselves and some do smart work which also sometime required to achieve but if both goes side by side i.e. if people recognize or come to know that at this stage i required hard work and at that stage i required smart work, then definitely they will achieve their goal asap. As we always say doing right thing at right time or speak when it required, therefore in this case we should follow this concept when its required in its way.
Rule for working smart:
1) Start your day with a plan. Write down the task (goals) you will complete each day.
2) Set time goals for your tasks i.e. a detail of time when you will do each task and how long they will take and when its going to finish.
3) People that interrupt you from completed your daily goals we should avoid them....these people are really call Time Robbers.
4) Always be control of your time.
Let me put my view by giving some example, the days when we were a student.There must have been some students studying all day and night and yet struggling to pass the exams and get the percentages.On the other hand there would have been some other students who studied hard and yet found time for playing also and still succeed in every examination. There was no difference in the study material,teachers and classes attended by both these students but still their outcome was differs. The same situation is at the workplace too. Some employees work very hard,night and day,on weekends too and there are some people who put in just the required number of hours,still meet deadlines and take out time for leisure activities and weekend holidays with family and friends. Do we think that these people are more brilliant then other people who are working continuously? The answer is "NO" because these people follow a balanced approach of working i.e. they followed the principle of smart work along with hard work. As it is said also "Its good to work hard, Its great to work smart,But its best to work hard and smart".
Therefore the Equation for success in Life is:
Success = Hard Work + Smart Work
