subject: Why Work Hard? [print this page] Why work hard when you can work smart? Why work hard when you can work smart?
Seriously. The number of acts you complete means nothing. The energy behind your acts means everything.
You can write 10 articles each day from a desperate place of 1 article from a calm, confident, intelligent place.
You can increase the number of people you meet and promote or try to do it all by yourself.
Your choice, each time.
Leverage your acts. Reach a maximum number of people in a minimum amount of time.
As you see from the photo above Kelli and I were on the beach in Bali. Fun day.
I proposed to her 5 minutes before taking the photo ;) So a bit busy celebrating today. But I am here at 10:43 PM Bali time, churning out a post.
Why? Because I am not big on working hard. I'd rather send out a nice post today, and get to the point, than try to send out 2 or 3 posts tomorrow.
Surrendering is a big part of my strategy now. Today I surrendered a bit, meaning I didn't kill myself, trying to work hard, or longer, after our exciting morning.
Letting go is key. Work. Do what you can. Let the Universe handle the rest.
Not easy at times. But if you learn that hard work is silly, and accept this truth, you work intelligently and persistently.
You need not slave. Just create intelligently. Speak your mind. Solve a problem. Leverage your time. Reach out to your target audience.
Stop working hard and start working smart.
Like this post. I can churn out 200 words or pump out 1000 words, making this post a valuable resource. No need to force it but no need to rush it, either.
Make your blog a valuable resource. Think long term. You know Google digs 600, or 800 words, or heck, even longer posts.
So write. Not for the sake of writing, but for the sake of making your blog a valuable resource. Make your content easy to digest.
Make your content easy to scan.
Stop working hard. Start working smart.
No intelligence means a long, tough learning curve. This is why some take years to succeed online, spinning their cash gifting wheels for weeks, months, years, struggling, fighting, straining and striving.
Totally not worth it. Work smart. Create content from your heart. Target the content.
Make your blog a valuable resource. Stop sounding mechanical. Start flowing smoothly, writing how you speak.
Slow down. Calm down. Write intelligently, focused, directed. Stop working hard. Start being smart.
Now you do need to work. Not working hard means working, but working intelligently. Writing longer posts. Targeting with keywords.
Sharing in the right spot. Or spots. Hanging with folks who dig your work. This is being smart.
Leveraging your presence by heavily promoting other people. Leveraging the heck out of others makes your job easier.
As more people promote you in return expect your presence to expand quickly.
You sowed so now the reaping becomes much easier.
Make each post heart felt. Speak from your heart. One mistake I guard against is sounding dry, which is evident of straining, or working too hard.
When I forget any time limits, or any limits, for that matter, I simply write. I intend to create a valuable cash gifting resource.
I write to help, to serve and to prosper others.
Magic happens at these points. I stop working, really, and start allowing, or releasing, or simply, allowing my energy to flow.
The shift might be subtle or powerful. You might feel a tiny shift, or a massive shift.
For me, I feel a strong shift recently. I do less and detach more. I remain present more. I resist the urge to rush more. So I work smarter.
Working smartly makes your job easy. Really. Like this post. I resisted the urge to rush out a few hundred words.
So now, putting out a longer, more quality post, I will generate more search engine juice, which benefits my cash gifting team.
Why work hard? You can work intelligently.
No need to churn out post after post, each one shorter than the next.
Put out a 1000 word piece. 1500 word piece. 2000 word piece.
SEO it out. Target your content. Working smart.
2, 3 or 4 years of cash gifting struggle. Uneccessary. Work smart.
Leverage your presence. Promote others. Others promote you.
As more people promote you expect your presence to expand fast.
You can reach a ton of people in little time by simply reaching out and promoting folks aggresively. You can expand your presence by helping others expand their presence.
This idea might seem silly but it works. Sow. Reap. Whatever you want help other people get it.
Give freely receive easily. One problem: you want to work hard. Ego thing. You want to wear your cash gifting bade of honor, slaving and striving, when you could do it the easy way.
No honor in slaving like a dog. People get better results working much less.
The goal is to reach your goal. To help people. To be open to cash gifting abundance, or to receive.
You need not kill yourself to make money online. No reward for that.
I felt the urge to churn out two or three 200 word posts today. You see the pic above? Kelli and I got engaged this morning in Bali.
Super busy day. Plenty of celebrating. So now I sit churning out this post at 11:10 PM, Bali time. I work smart. Meaning, I churn out an in-depth, SEO-ed out post, which speaks sweet music to search engines.
Working smart, working intelligently, not hard. No rewards for slaving, really. Because persistent, intelligent work beats hard work, all the time.
You need to work. Just not hard. Working smart means working from a place of intelligence instead of mindlessly churning out act after act day after day. No need to do that.
Working smart rocks. Working persistently rocks, so long as you work intelligently.
Patience guys. I churned out 600 words a few minutes ago. Then I erased it all by accident, without saving a word. Ouch.
So I watched the urge to force out a quick post again or to even force out a long post, and simply take my time writing a long, thought-out, SEO-ed out post.
Passive traffic. Better placement in search engines. Makes my blog a resource too All because I chose to work smart instead of working hard.
Think Big Picture, meaning, view your blog as a valued resource. Make each post a resource, a piece of content people can revisit, as a learning tool.
This is establishing authority. This is a long term approach. This is working intelligently and persistently as a cash gifting coach.
Rush cripples most of us. We rush ahead, quick to force out our work, with fear serving as a driver.
Fear the internet might go out, so we need to force out a post. Fear a cash gifting prospect will go to another coach if you dont call them back in 2 minutes.
Fear, which if you obey the energy, influences you to do stuff from a hard work instead of smart work place.
Right now I am tired. I can publish a 545 word post at this point or go the extra 4 miles, and put out a 1000 word post.
Its easier to work intelligently because each one of your acts reaches a maximum number of people. You reach out into your target market in a big way.
Why? You made an impact whever you showed up. You leveraged your presence. You worked smart, working intelligently toward your goal, reaching out and making a serious impact with each act.
Work. Please, by all means. But move into effective action. Kill the urge to get rich quick, or force out content, or puke your cash gifting opportunity on other people.
These tactics alienate, they disgust, and they repel people who would otherwise be interested in your opportunity.
Attract. Dont repel. Think big picture. Write content that positions your cash gifting blog in google. Work smart, not hard.
Working persistently might seem like working hard. 2 different things. Working hard is plastering your link all over Facebook Groups for 4 hours daily. Working smart is writing 1 REALLY good, in depth, keyword rich blog post.
By doing the latter you think long term. As your blog climbs google expect more passive, targeted cash gifting traffic, which puts money in your pocket and of course, helps your team in the process.
Work smart, not hard.
Your Turn
Do you work intelligently? Are you moving away from a hard work consciousness?
