Hard Work
I have been able to listen a few times lately to Neal Boortz, and while I don't subscribe to everything he says, I do enjoy hearing him talk about things like the Fair Tax and the importance of a strong work ethic. Today he talked about 80 hour work weeks and driving home in the dark.
I just don't think its possible to attempt and achieve great things (or true contentment) without proper dedication to hard work.
Three things are necessary:
1. Discipline: Working harder and longer than anyone else.
2. Perseverance: Fighting through adversity and negativity.
3. Discernment: Making the right decision, at the right time, for the right reason.
Especially when no one is watching.
2 comments:
I had to read this twice to make sure that you were actually supporting the idea of working 80 hours a week and driving home in the dark. I would pose that such is the problem with our country. We have work-a-holics who spend more energy and time with their job than the more important areas of thier lives. I think rather than turning every day into a work day and the focus being on working hard, the emphasis should be placed on working smart. Two totaly different things.
Many of the people you criticize on here (congress especially) has no problem working hard, but when we see what they spend their time on, we realize they are not working very smart - and therein lies the problem.
Doing your job well does not always require more time at the office, in most cases it just requires less time in the breakroom, on the phone, or blogging.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.
"I had to read this twice to make sure that you were actually supporting the idea of working 80 hours a week and driving home in the dark. I would pose that such is the problem with our country. We have work-a-holics who spend more energy and time with their job than the more important areas of thier lives."
A person should never neglect their family or personal duties and offer “work” as an excuse; however, it has been my experience as a supervisor, factory worker, and farmer, that America suffers more from laziness than too much real work. We have shipped most of the physical labor jobs oversees, and imported workers for the jobs we can not export. Many people are scared of real work, and wouldn’t know how to work 60 to 80 hours in week if they had to.
"I think rather than turning every day into a work day and the focus being on working hard, the emphasis should be placed on working smart."
I agree with you that working smart is very important. When I grew up on a farm, I often repeated the phrase, “Smarter, not harder.”
"Many of the people you criticize on here (congress especially) has no problem working hard, but when we see what they spend their time on, we realize they are not working very smart - and therein lies the problem. Doing your job well does not always require more time at the office, in most cases it just requires less time in the breakroom, on the phone, or blogging."
Agreed. Simply spending more time in an office, does not automatically translate into doing a job well. I simply do not want my generation of Americans to lose the concept of hard work that helped build this country and propel it to superpower status.
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, FDR, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Billy Graham, and Ronald Reagan never achieved greatness by working 40 hours a week and going camping every weekend.
I was in college before I realized that people go to an office, sit in a chair, and call it work. The definition of work in my family has always been something involving physical labor. As a teacher, I go to “work,” but it still sounds strange to me to call it “work.” Time in the breakroom, on the phone, or blogging is not work. If it’s on company time, it’s stealing.
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