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From the beginning itself you probably have heard it a thousands of times that you must work hard in order to succeed in life. When you're in school you're probably told that you need to spend 8 hours a day studying at home. And on later stages of life you're told to work really hard. But is working hard is the only way to succeed in life? And if so why are some of those who works 16-18 hours a day struggle to fit their daily requirements?
We as a human beings are blessed with a complex and unique brain system that are capable of doing logical thinking. Working hard defines only spending all your time and effort on doing something to achieve something. 
So now lets talk about working smart. Its all about making right decisions at right moments. Doing a certain work with creative and innovative ideas that are new to the world are the key to success. That is why we have new technologies these days. They make our work a lot simpler with very much less effort. 
<h3>So you should work smart and not hard? </h3>
Well no, who told you couldn't do both? These are people that played smart and won big times. Seems so easy. But does that also mean they did not work hard to be where they are. The thing is if you're working hard at wrong places than the outcome wouldn't be as effective as if you would have made some smart choices.
For example: If you had passion for music, but you ended up in a cooking industry. You convinced yourself that you'll work hard cooking 16 hours a day. Well does that make you happy? I don't think so. If you had gave the same level of dedication to music things could have been better.
<h3>All I'm saying is</h3>
Working hard or working smart cannot be separated from each other. Even when working hard you have to make smart choices. You cannot just wake up one day and say to yourself, “Today I will make smart choices”. No, you should be saying that to yourself every day and work “hard” on it.

Give anything your best shot and work towards your goals like there is no tomorrow. Be strong willed and work hard to get what you want, because the desire to achieve something is only as strong as the smallest distraction that can take you away from it. Be smart about setting your goals and planning how to achieve your goal. Be smart about making choices in life and then work on making those choice spring you good things. Work hard in making smart choice and work even harder to learn how to make smart choices. Make mistakes but be smart enough to learn from them.

Final tips: 
-Make right decisions
-Effectively manage your time
-Effectively utilize other's time
-Think before you act
-Be innovative and creative
-Learn new things everyday
-Control your emotions
-Work hard
-Know your limits