If You Want To Be Successful, You Need To Work Hard

Hard work is a prerequisite for success

Tom Stevenson
The Startup

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If you want to be successful in any walk of life, hard work is a necessity!

You cannot get anywhere without working hard. The trouble is that hard work is, hard! This stops a lot of us from doing it. We are not willing to put in the hours required, because it is difficult.

A previous article of mine touches on how you may not be working as hard as you think, and this could be true for a lot of people. We tend to shirk work when it gets tough.

The majority of the time we do this, it’s because of a few factors. Maybe, we don’t like the job we are doing and see no reason to bust a gut. Maybe, we’re not seeing results, become demotivated and stop giving 100%, or maybe we can’t be bothered anymore.

The thing with hard work is that, yes, it may be tough, but it is much better than the alternative. If you don’t put in the work, success is much harder to achieve.

A few years down the line you could be rueing the opportunity that you passed up, all because you were not willing to put in the hard work when it mattered the most.

In the end, it comes down to two things. Do you want to endure the pain of hard work? Or do you want to endure the pain of…

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