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Old 03-26-2009, 02:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
darkw0rker
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Default There is no such thing as 'Hard Work'

I've been thinking quite a while about the nature of hard work. The more I saw hard work, the more I resisted it. I had reached a point where sitting on a desk and surfing internet was hard work for me, usually I lie in bed, put my laptop on my lap and surf the web.

I was asking myself, why should some tasks be hard and some easy to do? How come some people regard some work as hard yet others would regard the same work to be easy? Why is that some things are only hard at first and gets easy throughout the way? How is it possible for a hard work to become easy at all?

For instance if you're not a reader and try to read for 20 minutes at one sitting, then it's going to be really hard. But after months of reading, that same 20 minutes will be so easy for you.

Then I concluded that there is no thing as hard work or easy work. The whole thing is subjective. It's all about our resistance (usually subconscious) to certain tasks that make them hard or easy. The greater our resistance to it, the harder it seems. And by nature we as humans tend to avoid hard work and welcome easy tasks.

So the way to accomplish a hard task is not to try harder. Instead you should change the way you see it.

Try to see it as easy and as fun as possible. You won't believe your eyes how much easier the task becomes for you.

And of course it depends on your comfort zone. The greater your comfort zone, the easier life seems to be.

Let me know what you think.
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