Positive Action

"Labor is the key of success"

"Hard work is the pillar of success"

Is this true?

Some of you will agree on this, while some of you are not and some of you will say it should be "smart work" in place of hard work. Working hard to get your goal is always good but what if we can achieve success working in a more wiser way in place of working harder. Yes, Working smart is always preferable rather than working hard. 

“what should I do?”

Let us take some day today activities. Suppose, you are talking to somebody who is very near and dear one to you then you can talk for a long time without getting bored but if you talk with some unwanted people, very soon you will face your boredom. You are walking in a road alone you will feel tired but if you are walking inside a shopping mall with you friends for your favorite stuff you will feel good and energetic. Eating with your favorite taste keeps you happy while eating other stuff which you do not like gets you irritated. Gossiping with your neighbor old lady seems the wastage of time while you talk with your best friend for a long time.

So this is simple, it should be interesting for you whatever you do. This depends on your interest areas, your likes and dislikes. If singing comes in your interest area, you can sing for a long hours without getting tired or irritated. When we do something what we love to do, we spend our energy positively for the job done that is why we do not get tired by the job requirement. If you do not like any particular job and you have to do this by any way, make it interesting for you. Let us take an example for a 4-5 years old kid, not interested to go for study at all. What do we do at this moment? We should go for some animated video for the study material so that a kid can learns things by his all interest.        

We do things to fulfill our need directly or indirectly. You ever heard “Man is a social animal” we depend on other people or things for our needs. Our need may be physical, social, material or emotional. If we get something good in result by our job we take interest in this. Our subconscious mind relates with those things of our need to our interest areas. In most of the cases we take initiatives to like things as it fulfills our need. Taking an example of arranged marriage in India, Two people unknown to each other live their life with love, satisfaction and happiness after their marriage. They begin to adapt and adjust, they changes their likes and dislikes according to each other. Why? Because they must fulfill their mutual emotional needs. They realize subconsciously that this change is necessary for their better survival. This is natural and reasonable too.

So your actions must be based on your need, then by the time you begin to like this even you do not like this at the initial stage.

“How should I do?”

There are so many alternatives, you can choose to do things. Suppose you have to go to Airport, by how many ways you can go there – by walking, by city bus or by you private vehicle. You prefer the medium according to your cost, comforts and time. If you stay far away from airport, this is not reasonable to go by walk even you like walking. You prefer private vehicle because it saves your time and energy and gives you comfort of journey. If this is not under your cost you prefer other mediums to compromise with comforts. Remember time is an important factor in job accomplishment because time saves energy.

For job accomplishment you need to be flexible and adaptable with your likes and dislikes, you should know how to maintain your interest with time because you may feel saturated with time. It depends on how much you like your job. We consider this in point of view of an employee doing job in a private company. Initially when he joins company, he is interested and he loves his job. After spending a couple of years he feels saturated even paid well with all comforts. He is no more going to like this job and changes the job in other companies. Sometimes interest changes according to our need as we compare ourselves with others. In this case if some other company provides more cost and comfort to their employees, he is on the stage where he is no more going to like his own company. This is very straight and simple. This is not being counted as selfishness or self centered behavior, here everybody want to survive as better as possible.       

So always do your job which you love to do, the job you do not like try to do it in a more interesting way by taking the help of people or technology. Consider cost, comfort and time at the time of doing job.