You are desperate to work hard, yet you are reading nonsense? Shameful man, shameful.
The moment you decided to read this, you have already made a major mistake. You might believe that you are still capable of working harder, but the truth is, you are already working at your hardest. The real issue you are facing is that you are not living your life based on your true selfish motivation. If you work outside of it, then even if you "force" or "push" yourself, you can only work at fifty percent efficiency, or worst, much less than that, probably only around one percent. In other words, you'll never be able to work your "truly hardest" if you follow your current mindset. Unfortunately, ninety percent of the current population falls into this trend.
As I discussed before in my previous writings, selfish motivation is what you truly want deep down to your core. Once you realize what your true selfish motivation is, then you'll live life to the fullest and maximize everything you desire from it. With this type of motivation, you won't be confused by what other individuals desire in life. For example, lets say that you only desire to eat one apple in your life and you feel satisfied, but someone you know keeps pushing you to eat as many apples as possible. Since you are "pushed" to believe "opposite" of what you want, then you'll be constantly suffering from getting extra apples that you don't want. On the other hand, it's also possible that you desire as many bananas as possible in your life, yet someone you know tells you to be modest and play it "safe", so you only eat one. Since you are suffering from the fear of going beyond your "limit" then you will constantly suffer with the hunger for more. Apples and bananas are simply fruit analogies of what you desire in life, so replace them with the object of desire in your mind to see what I mean. In the beginning, you might remember what your selfish motivation is, but as time passes by, your new comfort pockets will cover up and distract you from what you really wanted- making you forget, so if you still remember, hold on and keep track of it.
Your true selfish motivation simply lacks "activation" when you believe that you are not working as hard as you should be. There are only two reasons for this. One reason is that the assignment you are pursuing right now is completely unrelated to your selfish motivation. Second reason is that your selfish motivation for your current job is being burdened by negative factors. If the job you are currently pursuing is not your selfish motivation, yet you still want to continue, then the best you can do is to build lots of comfort pockets around it so that your life is easier by having yourself work in automation. comfort pockets are built by doing the same thing as many times as possible, and accepting all failures and success into it. Once your comfort pockets are high quality enough, then you will be able to work in automation, and your memory will blank out, putting you in a state of max efficiency without tiring you out from stress. Of course, without true selfish motivation, then your max efficiency still can't be too high. In another case, you truly desire what you are doing, but you're distracted from your path. If that's the case, your selfish motivation is being burdened by something else, and you'll have to solve your problem differently.
If there are negative factors burdening your selfish motivation, then get rid of them, or override them with new comfort pockets. There are many variation of these factors, so you will have to learn to look out for them yourself.
First factor you should consider are your talents, and your natural intelligence. I chose these factors first, because we all have a natural tendency to pursue things we are better at. As I discussed in my previous writings, natural intelligence has a strong tendency to breed laziness, because everything seems overly easy to do. That also applies if you have strong talent in the subject you are pursuing. What you can do to handle this problem is to realize the true complexity that's built into the goal you have in mind. Every truly desirable goal you want to accomplish always will have a lengthy process full of twists and turns that can't be explained in plain words or simple language. Without enough experience in the subject, or in other words, enough high quality comfort pockets built for it, even your overwhelmingly powerful natural talent will only scratch the surface of the puzzle, not truly handling it the way you desire to handle. For example, lets say you are talented in memorizing, designing and calculating floor plans and blue prints for commercial buildings. However, you never put any of your talent into practice. You even delay your practice for a long period of time. When you first begin doing it, you will find yourself "stuck" in many situations in which the theories you perfectly memorize does not apply. This happens ANYWHERE no matter what you are pursuing. The reason this is the case is because not everything that can be learned in the field can actually be completely expressed into words. This is especially true if you want to develop shortcuts into accomplishing your tasks quickly. Realizing this mindset will help you surpass the laziness your natural talent is burdening you with.
Second factor you should consider is whether the tasks you are pursuing are actually hard at all. Everybody is born with their own strengths, and weaknesses. These strengths and weaknesses amplifies depending how you are brought up since you were a child. Tasks that are difficult for others aren't necessarily difficult for you. Generalizing difficulties for anything has always been a BIG mistake society has made. Nothing is hard if you are selfishly motivated to accomplish it. For example, lets say you love eating all kinds of flavor of food, and you got a job as a gourmet. With your job, you'll have to eat thirty meals a day. For any spectator watching you do the job, they will most likely feel sorry for the mass amounts of food that you have to eat. What's the impression of the spectators? They will believe that your job is overly difficult. However, you do enjoy your job, and have no trouble completing your tasks. Don't burden your motivation with unnecessary hesitations just because SOMEONE ELSE believes it's difficult. People rethink what they enjoy because of others' opinions. Its insane to listen to them, and you lose precious time hesitating. If you absolutely believe something is easy, then it is most likely easy for you. Don't start hypnotizing yourself into believing the opposite.
Third factor you should consider is compare and contrast. Do not compare yourself with others. There are many times that when you are selfishly motivated to do something, you will be able to notice natural shortcuts to accomplishing the tasks. Others who attempts to follow you or copy you will not be able to do so if they are not selfishly motivated to accomplish the same goal. You might be able to spend one hour to accomplishing the same tasks that requires others spending thirty hours. Don't start pushing yourself to follow their ways and methods simply because of the time difference or whatever difference. Don't go with the flow, if your goal at hand is your ultimate desire in life then live it in the way that's meant for you. Your path is not meant for others and vice versa. However, if you see value in what they are doing, then just learn those values. Don't follow anything that makes you less efficient. Don't start believing that if you don't spend the same amount of hours, or same amount of inefficient efforts then you are not working hard enough. If you can accomplish the same tasks much more efficiently and quickly, then you are already working hard, because more work has been done without having more time being spent.
Fourth factor you should consider are your intentions for pursuing your goal in mind. This usually involves right and wrong in the equation. This is a very big factor because there are many things we consider right and wrong. I agree that there are plenty of things in which right and wrong is very clear cut. For example, killing is wrong. However, there are many gray areas in which society has no answer to. For example, is disliking your parents wrong? Is pitying poor people right? You only have one life to live. Once you are finished, you are finished. If your intentions are ever criticized, then think back to your starting point. Why did you decide to pursue your object of desire. Do you still want to follow that reasoning? Hopefully that reason is enough to help you blast through your obstacles. Others can say whatever they want, because they are criticizing you in a spectator seat. One factor you have to prepare for when you pursue the object of your desire is the possibility of criticism. Remember, if you don't choose your path with your decision, then someone else will begin to choose for you.
Fifth factor you should consider are unnecessary amounts of rests. We all have a tendency to take breaks, which is fine, if you believe it's completely necessary. However, if you are simply "forcing" yourself to rest, when you are absolutely motivated to continue pursuing, then it's not alright to rest. If it's simply "conventional" to rest, yet you don't feel that need, you should just continue working. Continue working if you believe so, because you are simply doing what you are absolutely desired to do. You do not desire to rest yet, so why bother? Others can say whatever they want. In fact, your old comfort pockets might even recommend you to rest. If you feel that you can still go on with DESIRE, then don't stop. Simple as that.
To work hard, all you are doing is really building momentum, as I stated in my previous writings. There's no such thing as working hard in this world unless you are not selfishly motivated to do so, or there are burdening factors. If you absolutely desire what you are doing, then there is no need to work hard.
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