The Merits Of Hard Work

28/07/2010

Hard Work Never Killed Anyone

By Jo Haigh

So goes the saying, but you would think it might do if you looked around you sometimes.

Stamina and energy are great dividers amongst those that have it in abundance and those that don't. My first boss once told me it was the ability to keep going when all around you were failing that gives you an advantage, and I have certainly found that to be so.

It's also true, in my experience, that sadly hard work and effort are not always rewarded, for a number of reasons, some outside the control of the worker...

...in question. I would have to say that has never stopped me, though ultimately I see the only way to get real reward is to 'do a Frank Sinatra' aka 'my way'.

For the foreseeable future we are all going to have to work a lot harder. Not just physically, in terms of having to do your own job and someone else's who is no longer in their post perhaps, but mentally as all our senses, intuition and mental agility will be required to be working at optimum levels to get us successfully through the next few years in anything like a healthy state.

For some, this requirement to rise to the challenge will be a small step. For others I suspect, either through a lack of understanding of the impact of not working at such levels consistently, or frankly an inability to sustain that amount of stamina, will mean their business will be another casualty added to the frightening statistic of 50,000+ companies expected to fall in 2010.

In my experience some people are blessed with enduring stamina, others have to train themselves to get into this mode. For the latter my tips include:

- get plenty of sleep,... continued on page two >

 

 

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