Work hard and you will be rewarded. It seems simple.
But do you remember what it was like to study for an exam? Some boys studied constantly and they were doing badly. Others hardly studied and got better grades.
You can go through incredible efforts inefficiently and not pay off at all. Or you can make moderate efforts efficiently and get rewarded.
The purpose of what you do is to progress, not just exhaust yourself.
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
There was once a family bakery business. This family-run bakery had a regular clientele and had operated profitably for more than four decades.
In the 90s, the owners decided to expand, offer snacks and other products, and open new wholesale and retail locations.
The bakery owners had never worked as hard in their life as they did after the expansion. And as a result of all their hard work, they got less money and the threat of bankruptcy because they could not cope with the debts incurred for expansion.
A retired business executive provided capital to keep the business running and then eventually bought it all. He looked at things as an objective observer and found that the bakery was very inefficient: “It had too many products. 90% of sales came from 10% of the products. They were wasting work making low-volume items for production and sale. "
The executive says that when he took over the company he knew that "these people could not have worked harder, but they could have worked smarter."
I leave you with an excellent commercial that reflects on work: