Learn To Be Lazy To Be Successful

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That's right, the title of the article is correct. You have to learn to be lazy to be successful.

I don't mean the kind of lazy where you just sit around or lie around all day on your couch and watch TV or play video games. Being lazy here means to be lazy from doing hard physical work. Because for you to succeed you need to be more of a hard thinker than a hard worker.

I'm not saying that hard work is not necessary, it is also important. But hard work alone won't make you successful. Just ask the millions of people who work very hard, but are somehow not getting ahead in their careers or business. Now take a look at the successful people. Yes they may work hard, but not nearly as hard as you'd think.

The difference between average people and successful people is that successful people work smart. They focus on the most important task at hand and just delegate the rest to other people.

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule? It's also known as the Pareto Principle wherein 80% of the results we want comes from only 20% of what we do. In short, in everything that we do in our business or career, only 20% of it will bring about majority of the results that we want. 

Think about it, among the things that you normally do in a day, which among them actually provide them with the results that you desire? Yes you can say that everything you do is important. Perhaps, but which among them actually bring about the results that you really want?

Try not to do everything yourself, focus only on what is important, then just delegate the rest to others. It's not being lazy if you delegate work, you're just working smart. And that's what you need to be successful.

Pain Comes From Real Success

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Have you ever experienced pain in life?

I have, countless times already. Yes it hurts, it's depressing, I felt awful and so on. But what can I do, it already happened. The best thing I can do is to learn from it and move forward. Of course that's easier said than done, but it is what it is.

But you know what that pain does? Pain is actually what will drive you to succeed.

Friends real success needs to have a reason, and more often than not pain is what drives people to succeed in life. Most people are driven to succeed so that they won't have to experience again the grief that the pain has brought them.

Not all pain though is a good driver for success. Others experience what we call the pain of greed. People who experience this pain work hard so that they can satisfy their own selfish desire. The problem with this kind of pain is that people who achieve success through this pain are usually unhappy.

So what kind of pain that can drive you to succeed and still provide happiness? The pain of giving

Giving is one of the most important lesson that Jesus taught us (He gave His life to save us from sin). Giving though is not something that is easy to do for most people, that's why it's also considered a pain. When you give, you sacrifice yourself so that others may benefit and it's not that easy to do. Unconditional love is required for you to really give without expecting anything in return.

The good thing about the pain of giving is that it will really drive you to succeed so that you can give more. You'll experience real success because it has a reason and that reason is love. You want to succeed in order to give because you love.

Remember that real success comes from experiencing pain. And the best pain to experience for you to succeed is the pain of giving.