I usually see the people trying the "hardest" are desperate people using inefficient methods or they are just starting out.
I remember knocking on doors in the middle of winter and hanging door hangers to start my lawn care business. I got 1 customer signed up that month.
Now, I make money a few ways. I subcontract out land clearing jobs and make $500+ for just giving someone a quote that takes half an hour. I get paid $13,000 a month from lawn care contracts and I pay workers to take care of the jobs. I can charge a client 1,000 to whip up a website that takes me a day or two to do.
I work so much more efficiently and that causes me to work a little less "hard". I'm not sweating, I'm not out of bed by 5am. I'm not stressed out or losing my mind. But a lot "gets done" because I set it up that way. I'm not out sending 500 instagram DM's a day, I could use a bot for that if I wanted to. I'm not cold calling 100 people a day, I could send ringless voicemails or send mass texts. I'm not knocking on doors anymore, I use targeted facebook ads.
The people I see working the hardest are usually just not working very smart yet.
The "universe" doesn't care how much work you put in. You can dig a hole in the ground and then fill it back in and not be rewarded at all. Simply working hard for the sake of it is laziness.
Think of what effect you want to create and then create it in the easiest way possible. Sometimes the easiest way possible is actually still going to require hard work, sometimes it doesn't. Some people succeed in business without much effort, but it usually requires taking a very unique angle, having some sort of unique opportunity or knowing someone. There always needs to be a competitive advantage.
I remember knocking on doors in the middle of winter and hanging door hangers to start my lawn care business. I got 1 customer signed up that month.
Now, I make money a few ways. I subcontract out land clearing jobs and make $500+ for just giving someone a quote that takes half an hour. I get paid $13,000 a month from lawn care contracts and I pay workers to take care of the jobs. I can charge a client 1,000 to whip up a website that takes me a day or two to do.
I work so much more efficiently and that causes me to work a little less "hard". I'm not sweating, I'm not out of bed by 5am. I'm not stressed out or losing my mind. But a lot "gets done" because I set it up that way. I'm not out sending 500 instagram DM's a day, I could use a bot for that if I wanted to. I'm not cold calling 100 people a day, I could send ringless voicemails or send mass texts. I'm not knocking on doors anymore, I use targeted facebook ads.
The people I see working the hardest are usually just not working very smart yet.
The "universe" doesn't care how much work you put in. You can dig a hole in the ground and then fill it back in and not be rewarded at all. Simply working hard for the sake of it is laziness.
Think of what effect you want to create and then create it in the easiest way possible. Sometimes the easiest way possible is actually still going to require hard work, sometimes it doesn't. Some people succeed in business without much effort, but it usually requires taking a very unique angle, having some sort of unique opportunity or knowing someone. There always needs to be a competitive advantage.
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