Work Smarter, Not Harder
by A truly mistaken advice for young people these days is, if they want to be successful and get ahead in life they really have to work hard, by getting a good job and putting great efforts like spending long working hours and weekends too.
So, when expectations are not met, they think that it is because they aren’t working as hard as they should, which result in a decision to work even harder putting all efforts and energy without considering matters of paramount importance than working hard and acquiring things the world can offer, in preparation for the sunset years.
Picture of Yourself
Your life reflects your values. What you want your life to be would surely depend upon how you picture yourself to be. Have a vision of yourself. The directions you want to go will surely count, or if you have sufficient faith in a higher power and trust what you need and want in life by asking God to unfold your vision inspired by faith, persistent hope, glimmering imagination, and sustained by actions with love, surely that picture will determine the course you take in life.
Be the person others choose to follow, giving them inspiration, living with your values, providing vision for the future, caring and acting with compassion. Be one who will not become frustrated if victory does not come in easily in your appointed time. Create a mental picture of success not on material or earthly power and possessions but based on God’s standard of success. The following characteristics may be considered:
- Truly God fearing who finds pleasure in His commands;
- Virtuous, gracious, kindhearted and charitable;
- Trusting God steadfastly;
- Just, merciful and faithful living a way of life with eminence in the eyes of God
Deliberate Mindset
Mental discipline, a conscious effort and a decision to pursue one’s thought of becoming successful not by working hard but by working smart or intelligently. One’s way of thinking or frame of mind must be patterned with consistent evaluation of thoughts and changing the same whenever necessary to be able to achieve specific goals and desires. Avoid negative and defeating thoughts as well as fears and worries by keeping your minds focused and with positive thinking.
Specific Goals and Desires
Pursue with diligence specific goals and desires. Reevaluate and reformulate it as life changes, for a lot more is needed to be successful than just working hard all day. Opportunities would come your way and you must have more ideas but never forgetting that there is Somebody, who is in control and promised to give you the desires of your heart, all you have to do is to stay faithful.
Working Smarter
Common sense really counts a lot in dealing with our everyday lives. Work harder with your brains when doing a job by staying clear and focused on what you truly desire in your life and act on those desires applying intelligent decisions or choices. By just working hard will not bring success, it is by working smarter with your specific goals and desires that one can accomplish big things by setting up strategies to make goals more achievable.
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On October 3, 2008 at 4:16 pm
God doesn’t exist.
Babel Fish
On October 6, 2008 at 7:34 pm
So what your saying is God plots out your life, so if you end up being very unlucky and can not get out of poverty by working hard or through your inteligence. You put your trust in God to put food on your table and to feed your family.
I truthfully hope you do not follow the normal Christian path asking selfish things off of your God. Such as please give me a good job please let me be successful etc, etc.
As you know I am an athiest that writes about religion… this is something I wrote in one of my books. I think it relates well to your article as it addresses selfishness..
Looking through Gods eye’s
One only needs to know the character of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim God to be able to look through the eyes of God. Ever caring all knowing and very wise! The Christian faith makes it to easy to be forgiven, the Jewish and Muslim faith also allow for Gods forgiveness but on a more, stricter base.
The Laundry
Gods house of prayer is being treated like a Laundry, dirty linen in clean linen out!
Examples:
Man walks into house of prayer: he prays to God “Please God forgive me” God is listening, Man states “I have committed adultery, please forgive me for my sin” God thinks, “This man is asking forgiveness for cheating on his wife? This is the sixth time!” God says in annoyance “All these people are my children including this mans wife I deeply regard her feelings on this issue.” “Before he can be forgiven by me, he has to be forgiven by his wife!” Man walks away from his house of prayer where he thought he lightened his load, ready to sin again.
High Ranking government official walks into house of prayer: he prays to God “Please God forgive me” God is listening, “I stole money from the government purse, please forgive me for I am weak, I needed the money to send my children to school” God states to him self “This man keeps on asking forgiveness for many similar things, he has too many people to atone too, its an helpless situation, I just cant forgive this, he has hurt too many of my children” The official walks away from his house of prayer where he thought he lightened his load, ready to sin many times again.
A woman walks into house of prayer: she prays to God “Please God, I would like a rich husband to support me and buy jewellery and all the luxury items that I’ve always dreamed of”. God simply doesn’t listen to selfish people! But the Devil Does! The woman walks away from his house of prayer to misguidedly wait for God to grant her wish.
Once you learn to look through the eyes of God it becomes very simple to work out your Gods answers to prayers. The problem is have the religions opened a gate to hell in their own temples, church’s, mosque’s, synagogue or prayer mats?
The Religious leaders should start teaching the faithful how to ask forgiveness and how to pray unselfishly, this could be the solution to fighting corruption, crime and alleviate poverty. They could also have a solution to create peace and harmony through out the world.
The Catholic Church is one of the biggest offenders the have created the biggest chain of Laundry’s in the World, plus the Vatican laws all need to be reviewed especially those that hamper population control and the spreading of AID’s. The Pope needs to do his job as the spokesman of god; he simply needs to be brave and wise enough to look through the eyes of God. He needs to close the gates of hell within the Catholic Church, holy water, prayer alone is not answer to a very big problem concerning the welfare and souls of his flock.
rqcemanes
On October 7, 2008 at 12:18 am
Babel Fish,
Surely again, you do not understand the message of this article. ‘Hope one day you could.
rqcemanes
On October 9, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Yeah, you’re right Jojo. It is really saddening to know that even the most learned men are misled. They believe that the popular “born again” Christians these days are really born again in the true sense of the word. Sometimes they do not realize that it may also mean “burned again”. He.he.he. That is because they do not practice what they preach and often misled people with full of hypocrisy.
michael
On November 23, 2008 at 2:12 am
Goodah! It really pays to be smart. He.he.he.
C LEBLANC
On March 20, 2009 at 4:11 pm
God does exist and I only hope you find him before he comes back. He sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. I am praying that you will get to know him. This is a really good Article. I have learne alot from it. God bless you.