WORKING HARD IS NOT ENOUGH...
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
Sometimes we're on the hamster wheel of life and we forget our "WHY", our purpose, our end goal.
I'm crystal clear on it. In fact, I can see it right now.
On my plane from Bali to the USA, a couple of months ago, I was thinking about one of my goals. And I was frustrated.
It wasn’t going my way fast enough.
Then the universe responded bluntly, “If this was easy, everyone would be doing it."
It isn’t trivial to make a living this way. Not everyone put this much effort to be successful at it. Hence, NOT everyone becomes a global top leader!
I knew that it was not going to happen overnight, my success stories wouldn’t just happen to be full of Forbes features all the time. I expected that. Yet, what I didn’t expect was to be so overwhelming.
I didn’t expect this to be so incredibly hard.
The truth is, we exist on this earth for some undetermined period of time. During that time we make things happen. Some of them fulfil us. Some others instead, drain us.
It is great to plan and visualize your success. However, you need to merge life with your goals. I call this process: co-creating with life.
For many years, I have been the one that sets specific, actionable goals. I set them for:
- the grades I wanted at school,
- the weights to lift at the gym,
- the profits to earn in business.
I succeeded at a few, but I failed at a lot of them.
Eventually, I realized that results had very little to do with my goals. The driving force behind any success was my ability to tune with the right frequency. It has been all about energy for me.
Millions of people around the world work hard. How many of them are truly successful? Our intuition tells us that there is more behind a great career than just hard work.
So what is this magic ingredient?
Magic happens when you:
- align with your WHY,
- “work hard (yes, it is not enough, but still necessary),
- and then share it with the world.
You will not fix the world's problems by earning 6 figures a month. But you will contribute and make a difference. And that feeling is ultimately vibrating with a higher frequency that comes with a higher purpose. The frequency that you and the world need.
Lifting up your vibrations is as important as working hard.
And, how do you get there? Here are my HIGH FIVE favourites to do :
1?? Reconnect to your vision and vibrate your energy at the right frequency in direct alignment with the Universe. When you begin to live in the flow then true miracles start to happen.
2?? Staying attuned to your emotions. Evaluate your headspace because you know you should “feel the feelings” before moving on. Feeling okay about feeling bad is good for your mental health.
Think of emotional check-ins as daily “micro-introspections.” Start by doing a body scan from head to toe.
I am blessed to have access to my resonance tool called Healy to get me back into balance. It can even help me trace the specific cause.
3?? How do you get yourself back into action?? DO SOMETHING. More action brings better emotions. And that is pivotal for the trajectory of your business. Do something and maybe succeed, do nothing and fail for sure.
4?? Listen to the experts but beware of those that tell you hard work is not necessary. If they are truly successful, for sure they also work hard. ? I really believe in hard work. It’s how we learn values like diligence, patience, and gratitude. Inasmuch as effort into something is important though, WHERE we invest our hard work is even more important.
5?? Understand that SMART WORK comes after HARD WORK. You’re going to be inefficient in the beginning but you will learn and get better. ?
But before you follow the mantra that hard work will always pay off, consider your WHY and your vision in order to succeed as an entrepreneur. Perhaps more importantly, consider what’s important to the people around you and the planet you are in, beyond just money and glory, because success is never guaranteed, and you might as well have fun if you’re going to be working so hard :)
Give yourself some grace but be realistic with your path. Let’s not play around in 2021, PLEASE. It’s time to unleash your inner badass!