Hard work alone can tire you, but hard work coupled with smart work helps you reach the peaks of success.
In a town, every year an annual competition was held. The rule for the competition was simple: whoever cut the most trees would be the winner. Two people, one old and one young reached the finals.
The young one was full of enthusiasm and as the final competition started he went off into the woods and set to work straight away. Older lumberjack went to opposite side of the woods and started his work calmly.
During competition, the young man could hear sound from other side of forest where the old man was cutting trees. He could hear the sound of trees falling on older man’s side. He noticed that at regular intervals, the sound of trees falling would stop from the older man’s side.
He thought that the old man was taking a rest at regular intervals. The young man took it as an opportunity and took even that time to cut more trees without taking resting.
At the end of the competition, the young man looked at his pile and felt confident that he would win as he didn’t take a rest like the old man and continued to cut trees from beginning of competition.
At the medal ceremony, the young man stood there confidently that he would be awarded the prize of being champion of competition.
Next to him was the old man who was looking much less exhausted. When the result was announced, the young man was shocked to hear he lost the competition.
He turned to old man and said: “How can this be even possible?? After every hour, you would stop cutting trees and take a rest while I was still cutting trees even at that time and yet you win.”
The old man turned to him and replied, “Yes, I took a break after every hour but not for rest but to sharpen my tools.”
Below, some winning formulas for many games:
Work smart, don’t work hard
1.Working hard and working smart can be two different things:
When you focus just on working hard, you may end up spending a lot of time doing a lot, but when you focus on smart work, you end up spending less time doing the right things.
2.When you work smart, you achieve more
When you work smart, you automatically start focusing on managing your time better. Better time management helps in achieving more.
