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“It’s not just about working harder, it’s about working smarter”. I’ve always heard that line from a radio station in US every time he starts his program. The host’s name is Mark Deo. His program talks about small business. He invites and interviews prominent people to get some insights what are the imperative things to consider in putting up a business.

Literally, the line “It’s not just about working harder, it’s about working smarter” seems to me is obviously right. I know you would probably conform with me too. Why would you strive and hardly do things that take you too long if you could do it with just exerting minimal effort yet more efficient and accurate?. You don’t need to perspire and be looked exhausted to be called you are doing things effectively.

Learn to delegate. If you were given 1 day to do 10 important things. Of course, you might feel hasty and come to think how would you efficiently divide your time to get these things done by yourself. Ideally, you should not do it all by yourself. Doing things in a haste would probably lead to a poor output. Even though you are too proficient you can’t still accomplish numerous to-do given a limited time. So it’s time to delegate some of your workloads to your close friends, colleagues or others who can be taught. In this way, you could also focus more on other paramount things. You will become more productive as well.

Use innovative technologies. Instead of going to the bank and pay your bills. Why wouldn’t you use online payment system which almost banks have. You may use Credit Card or Savings Account to pay your bills online with just few clicks on your mouse. Why would you manually compute your balance sheet if you could use Microsoft Excel (or the like) and put your formulas there so it will automatically and accurately compute itself. If you are a project manager you could use numerous free online project management tools in distributing tasks even though your subordinates are far away from you.

There are lots of alternative ways to help our work more efficient and effective without putting much effort. Just keep in mind, working smarter is sometimes better than working harder.

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