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Work Smarter, Not Harder

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• Author: The Blogsultant
• August 10, 2007
• Category: Growing

I think this has become the theme of my week.

John Assaraf touched on it in his post on “what hourly rate you must make” to reach your financial goals, and then again when he laid out his “work schedule for success“.

Beth Terry, a client of mine, wrote on “the importance of rest and regeneration on performance“.

In more pain than I could daily endure, I headed to the doctor, who helped me discover how “pushing myself too hard” with my work outs had injured my body.

Working smarter requires strategy. It requires planning. It requires (sometimes) making hard choices and (sometimes) facing obstacles while acting on a choice that may have been easy to make but is a little messy in the fallout. It requires being okay that some people don’t like what you are doing and the huge reward in knowing others admire you and respect you more for respecting yourself.

Seth Godin has talked about the difference in selling something for a dollar to a million people, versus selling something for a thousand to a thousand people, or something for ten thousand to a hundred people “to make a million dollars“. It comes down to strategy. Maybe supply and demand too…if I’m selling a piece of me, I may not have a million pieces to give. Which brings it back to working smarter, rather than harder. My goal isn’t necessarily to make a million dollars…but it is to reach my goals with my heart, soul, and body in tact.

That won’t happen by accident or luck or chance. It will only happen if I live deliberately.

Tia Graham, blogsultant, builds, manages, and empowers business blogs that can help you generate income, improve publicity, and interact with your audience. See bloggingwithflair.com for more information.

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