It’s easy to claim to be hard-working. Unfortunately, the phrase ‘I am a hard worker,’ can be spoken faster than the mind can appreciate its meaning. Countless individuals don’t understand the true import of the phrase, and throw it around with no grip on what hard graft actually entails. Here are some definitions to keep in mind for the next time you claim to be hardworking. See if you tally up.
What Is Hard Work?
- Hard work is fitting what you do in a week into one day.
- Hard work is when you’ve just finished typing pages of content onto your computer and there’s a power cut. When the lights go back up you search for the file, finding it corrupted and unusable. Hard work is when you type it out all over again.
- Hard work is leaving your house three hours early to walk to a meeting because you haven’t got the money for the bus.
- Hard work is when you wake up with your face on the keyboard, unable to remember at which point you fell asleep.
- Hard work is 150 cold calls a day.
- Hard work is doing what you have to, not what you want to.
- Hard work is consistency. Consistent every day.
- Hard work is finding the solution to an ‘impossible’ problem.
- Hard work is walking through a hundred people saying ‘No’ on the way to the one guy who might say ‘Yes’
- Hard work is sitting in your office working on your dreams, while your friends work on their tans.
- Hard work is working throughout the night, and past the day to meet your deadline.
- Hard work is perseverance. Your eyes are open and your fingers are typing even as your brain screams at you to sleep.
- Hard work isn’t watching your favourite TV show.
- Hard work is when you achieve the unachievable
