The Sixth Spade

Whenever we are in a situation into which we are striving for a higher goal, say, professional promotion or business development, I often hear that we should work warder to achieve something. For me, it is actually an incomplete mix of dedication. Yes, we should work hard or increase our efforts but it is not always the case. Sometimes, there are better ways to gratification. We should always remember to WORK SMARTER, NOT JUST HARDER. It is like there is a tall and massive wall that blocks your path, we sometimes need not to break the whole wall or climb over it when we can just go around it. In an ordinary office environment, the only thing constant there is an increase or workload or having greater responsibility, if we try to finish everything up all at the same time, we just exhaust ourselves until we never meet any of the deadlines. Maybe we should do one thing at a time, or better yet, we should not let the work load pile up. Finish it as soon as it's given. Or exercise time management. I have this mentality in my collegiate days where I never go home as long as there's a single assignment left unfinished. After that, I can do whatever I want whenever I'm in our house. All of the resources are at the school. I am not the type of person that brings the responsibility in the school or at the office at my home, vice-versa. We all have responsibilities everywhere and it is our obligation to attend to them in their proper time and place. There is always a better way. Another is if we approach our jobs in a lighter way, even if we seem not to be satisfied in our professional life, it is our choice to continue taking it or leave it. If we cannot give it up, we should look at a brighter side, anyways, we can always try to learn new things and think that either ways, we are in the win-win situation, they gave us salary while we learn more from them. If the opportunity rises, we know that you are much more qualified to a better career. It is always up to us if we want to be better or miserable. Always our choice. WORK SMARTER, NOT JUST HARDER.