Ever heard the expression ‘hard work never breaks bone’? It makes them stronger! 
Most people resent hard work; they would rather have hard work done for them by someone else. They would always think about how to make things easy and if they can’t, they give up. Hard work doesn’t mean labour or manual work. It is work in general, whether in the office, or on the field, in school or at a function, work is work.
Technocrats & high-tech companies all over the world are always looking for ways to make things easier. The thing is while they are making it easy for you, they are working hard, very hard. They make the IPods, the blackberries, the laptops, the cellular phones, the spaceships, the list is endless. The thing is no matter how the world tries to make things easy for us, we still have to hard work at everything and anything we desire to excel at.
If you are in school, for example, there are new technologies all over: you get assignments sent to you by email, there’s distance learning programs, there are visual presentations, laboratories, anything to make teaching and learning easy but the thing is you still have to study. If your school is the most modern school on the globe, the student still has to work hard and study what he or she has to in order to make it out successfully. Of course if you don’t work hard, you fail, the system fails you. This is the most important point, stick with me, how did you feel on your graduation day or how would you feel when all your HARD WORK has been crowned with a 1st Class degree? Excited, elated, on top of the world! Why? Because you knew/know it wasn’t given to you on a silver platter- you WORKED HARD for it. That’s the feeling of hard work.
Now imagine how you would feel otherwise. Guess what the system makes it easy but you still have to do the hard work. It applies wherever you find yourself, whether a janitor or CEO. Nothing is given on a silver platter, you need to work hard.
Notice there’s a feeling that comes with working hard. For instance you had outlined things you had set out to do in a day, so many tasks and then you strive hard to do everything and all turns out successful, how would you feel? Good or not? There’s this inner joy or sudden strength that comes with completing tasks successfully, you suddenly feel like you could do anything, any task because you know it wasn’t easy to accomplish.
We all want things done the easy way. Guess what; even the easy way is not easy, if you really want to succeed. Don’t complain about hard work! You do it! How else do you think the world’s big-guns made it? WORKING HARD!
If you never worked hard in your life for something you have now, chances are if you don’t work hard at keeping it, you will lose it eventually, maybe not now but sometime soon, you will. You can’t cheat in this game, you never can. YOU DO IT, YOU EARN IT!
Apart from the success, the feeling inside of you that counts.
