Hard work

Monday is not always easy, so does our lives.

We often have Monday Blues, so do I think in certain point of our lives we experience the bluish. Monday Blues are always associated with laziness or indolence. We all try to do what’s easy and avoid hard work, thanks to the weekend effect.

At the first day of work and as July is coming, it is timely now to remind our ownselves to once again work hard (if we have been lazy), to be self-disciplined (if we have been disorganized), and most of all enjoy after our hardwork.

Six months have passed and we still have another six months to go before we welcome 2009. If you have your New Year Resolution fixed (I assume you have, at least one), take your butt off your comfortable chair and find those resolutions which you have written. Read them out loud and stick them close to your heart. Revise them if things have gotten off the track.

“When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.” writes Steve Pavlina.

I am not making any vows or for any reason saying that I want to fight procrastination, a pledge is hard to keep but reminder is not. I have been lazy at times, I admit that. Sometimes I put important matters behind just because I do not want think about them, that’s total laziness.

As we are celebrating the Year of Saint Paul, the apostles of the Gentiles, we ought to be self-disciplined and work hard as they have. St Paul used to tell the Thessalonians this, “Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.” He also warned them to lead orderly lives and work to earn their own living, yet never become tired of doing good. (2 Thessalonians 3: 10-13)

You see, whenever we have worked hard enough, it is alright for us to give ourselves a small treat (a slice of pizza perhaps) or even give ourselves a big hug.

At the end of the day or perhaps at the end of our lives we would say “I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance, and I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7)

Some may want to ask why work so hard? That’s a good question.

Steve wrote this. Being healthy is hard work. Finding and maintaining a successful relationship is hard work. Raising kids is hard work. Getting organized is hard work. Setting goals, making plans to achieve them, and staying on track is hard work. Even being happy is hard work (true happiness that comes from high self-esteem, not the fake kind that comes from denial and escapism). Hard work goes hand-in-hand with acceptance.

Work hard my friends. Determine the domains or the areas you want to improve and work on them. Off shall I go with my work, I am still analyzing my data and there are tonnes of them.

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