Do you believe that you have to work hard to earn money?
That you have to work hard to succeed?
Many of us do.
It’s a deep cultural belief that’s often passed down through the generations. The idea that you will be rewarded for being a ‘good worker’. That your job will be safe, and you will progress up the ranks.
In many, many cases, it’s no longer true.
❌ How many people do you know who have worked hard all their lives for very little reward or pleasure?
❌People who’ve been laid off despite their efforts?
❌People who have been overlooked for a promotion, even though they are diligent at their job?
❌ Business owners who work endless hours but still struggle to make headway, or pay the bills
I know plenty, including me in the past.
The work paradigm has shifted.
Many of us do.
It’s a deep cultural belief that’s often passed down through the generations. The idea that you will be rewarded for being a ‘good worker’. That your job will be safe, and you will progress up the ranks.
In many, many cases, it’s no longer true.
❌ How many people do you know who have worked hard all their lives for very little reward or pleasure?
❌People who’ve been laid off despite their efforts?
❌People who have been overlooked for a promotion, even though they are diligent at their job?
❌ Business owners who work endless hours but still struggle to make headway, or pay the bills
I know plenty, including me in the past.
The work paradigm has shifted.
Could it be that the HARDER you work, the LESS you earn?
As Daniel Priestly says:
💭“Hard work is not a competitive advantage any more. If anything, it’s the opposite.
Competitive advantage is thinking expansively, connecting with the right people and resources, and spotting fresh opportunities.”💭
💭“Hard work is not a competitive advantage any more. If anything, it’s the opposite.
Competitive advantage is thinking expansively, connecting with the right people and resources, and spotting fresh opportunities.”💭
It’s about making time to THINK, RECHARGE and CONNECT with your vision, resources, and people:✅ Prioritising time to pause and think strategically. To climb the tree in the jungle and look ahead.
✅ Embracing and harnessing emerging tech, AI, new ways of working, simplified, integrated systems.
✅ Seeking new connections, synergies and leverage in people, ideas, finance, tech and resources.
✅ It’s exploring and experimenting.
✅ It’s you and your team continually seeking incremental improvements (marginal gains) AND radical shifts, as a core and integral part of your ‘doing’ .
When you believe work should be ‘hard’, you are at risk of wanting/making it hard so you feel ‘successful’.
How often do you say “yes, I’m really busy” as a measure and validation of perceived success?
It’s a trap
Instead, seek for work to be EASY
To be flowing smoothly. Enabled by great systems, tech, people, ways of both working and being.
When you are in a flow state, it’s amazing how much gets done, and how energised you can feel.
❓What can you do today to start to make work easy?
❓How much time is in your diary, and your team’s, for non-busy work?
❓Is it time for a rethink about that outdated, unhelpful belief?
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