Working Smarter Not Harder
So far I have been talking about all this hard work and you are probably thinking I already am working hard. I couldn’t agree more. Most people work very hard at what they do and still find that they are continuing to fall farther and farther behind. What I want to talk to you now about is working SMARTER not HARDER.
As I already stated we have all been led to believe that if we just work hard and prove we are good, dependable employees then the company we are working for will see to it that we are taken care of. If this was the case then we wouldn’t be finding ourselves in the state of being where we are today. Today more and more people find that they are working themselves to the point of exhaustion and yet they can only barely scrape by. They trade the hours they have for the money (always much less then they are worth) that the company they work for is willing to give them.
Time and time again we set up late trying to figure out how to make the little bit we are receiving stretch farther and farther. Herein is the problem. We continue to slave away hoping that things will get better. Maybe the next raise will finaly allow us to get our heads above water. It never does but we keep hoping and trying and moving forward in life while falling farther backward in financial stability. The problem is in the fact that while we are working very hard and trying the best we can we are only able to dedicate so many hours, be it because of physical limitation, company limitations or other outside forces. So the fact remains that we have only so many hours to dedicate to earning an income and when we stop so does the income.
Now I’m not suggesting that you run out and get another job or join the latest MLM (multi level marketing)craze as these options have been around for years and the results are still inconclusive. The one thing that is conclusive is that MLM’s require sales (what if you don’t like to sell) and a second job only removes the limitation of the company only allowing so many hours a week from you. It does nothing for the fact that you still have to physically apply the hours to receive the income and as we already stated time is a limited commodity. Instead what I am talking about is creating a way to have the work you do continue to work for you even when you are not there.
You are currently reading this article and yet I am not setting here with you while you read it. I might be working on another article, sleeping, eating, or anything else I care to do but it is still here for you to read when it is convenient for you. That my friend is working SMARTER not HARDER. I produce this once but it continues to produce returns over and over. Right now the how it produces these returns is not important (we will get to that later) just the understanding that we need to learn to make time our friend instead of an adversary that we must fight a losing battle against.