Sadia Zia

Work smart not hard You would have heard this popular maxim that one must work smart not hard. Yesss!!! This maxim truly depicts that how people can succeed in their lives by working smartly and wisely. But we have heard the whole life that one must burn midnight oil in order to achieve goals. Was that wrong? What do you say? It was right for sure!! Working hard means ‘putting all your efforts in accomplishing the task’, whereas working smart means ‘making smart choices and intelligent decisions’ that one may not feel remorse in future. People who make smart choices usually move up the ladder faster. But it’s not like they don’t work hard. They not only put all their strength in achieving their goals but use their wisdom to take right step towards every path. They actually work quite hard before reaping the reward of success but they never forget to make perfect choice before starting their work. Similarly, you should ponder hard before getting involved in any new task. This is how you can work smart instead of hard. Working hard gives you good result but working hard and smart both gives you extraordinary results. You must apply following rules to your life if you want to get success with working smartly: 1. You must have clear objective before starting any work. People who are not known to their objective before plunging into something headfirst usually waste most of their time. As clearer your thoughts will be, you will chase your goal easily and swiftly. 2. When you get your objective, then you must have a vision to execute your plans in correct order. Your objective should be your direction and your vision should be your destination. Your vision actually takes you towards your endeavor. 3. You must look upon the most important tasks that you have to go with in the beginning. There must be number of things that you have to do before achieving your task. So first of all, you need to go with the ways that will have great impact. 4. You must keep yourself motivated throughout the task. You must not get into panic if anything happens beyond your thinking. You need to maintain an environment that keep you in flow and do not divert attentions towards something worthless. 5. Try to learn from others and never disregard anyone’s opinion. You will be surrounded with numerous resources, intelligent people, quality books, etc. all the time. Hence, you must take your lessons from all these resources. You have to read material that is written by famous scholars, bloggers and experts in order to gain awareness about different matters. You should never stop learning from others. 6. You must stick to a formula that has given you success in previous times. There is no requirement to reinvent new plans if you are getting success with old ones. Innovate only when you find it more valuable than previous one. 7. You can ask for help from your acquaintance, family, colleagues and friends. Most of us always prefer to not disturb others and perform every task on our own. But still we find lot of people around us who are keen to help others. So, you must ask question to get an answer. If you won’t ask, you will never get it. 8. Outsourcing is another practice that you can use while accomplishing any task. If you are not expert in certain area then you can outsource it. If you are running out of time; you must hand over the work to others that is not your area of expertise or that cannot be done in short span of time. This is how you can work smart not hard. You must give your best shot to anything with a thought that it can never be done again or there will be no tomorrow. You must have strong desire to attain what you want to. You need to be smart enough to make good choices in life. You need to be smart to set your aims and plans that how you will be succeeded in achieving your goals. You can make mistakes but be smart to never repeat!!! You need to work hard for making smart decisions.