If you want to be successful at what you do, you need to first learn a very important lesson: Success does not come, necessarily, by hard work. Rather, success comes by smart work.
There is a fine distinction between these two ideas. What is it?
Well, a lot of times people get caught up in the busyness of the business. They soon begin to believe that nothing will get done without their immediate attention. If this sounds like you, well…bluntly put, you have surrounded yourself with the wrong people.
You need to build a team with which you are comfortable delegating issues and matters of business that can be handled by others. Doing this will help you not only to be more productive in your work, but also to know and understand better what is essential and crucial to have your attention, and what is not.
This is an aspect of working smarter…and not harder. To work smart, employ the smart people around you. Put them in place to free you up so you can maintain and function in your place. You are the head of your company, so delegate and push on and upward as you lead your business.
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