Are you happy with your job? No? I tell you why

"If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true!" Napoleon Hill

Again another quote from Napoleon Hill. This one caught my attention, because it was undeniably true! Napoleon Hill explained this quote in his book Think and Grow Rich in 1937. And after more than 60 years, his quote is still true about what is happening in our real life. Hard work do not bring you joy, happiness and wealth. It only makes you feel tired, unhappy and POOR!

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Have you encountered a scenario like below around you?

Adam had a family of 3, and a loving wife. He was promoted last year and bought a house with his savings and extras from his salary increment. Each month he had to pay for mortgage for a semi-detached, and expenses: spend 3 meals a day for family, children's education, utilities, car, insurance and weekend entertainment.

In order to cover expenses, he told himself he needs to work hard for his career. Work on projects until late night to please clients, therefore making the bosses happy.

Slowly, he realized the money is not enough to fund for family expenses. He realized he needs to work HARDER to get promoted again and earn more increment. Therefore he pitched in more sales and work on project even harder. Few days of sleepless nights, sometimes he needs to work on weekend and gave up entertainment on weekend.

He hardly see his children anymore. By the time he reached home it was 1am, children were asleep. He woke up at 7am and go to office again to work. Health begins to deteriorate because of the lack of sleep. His wife started to find a job to support the family's mortgages and education.

Doctor advised him to work less as his high-blood pressure will result to a critical level of stroke. He decided he needs to work lesser. He changed his job, sold his home for a smaller low-end house. No longer able to go for weekend entertainment and sometimes have to skip dinner to have only 2 meals a day.

While both parents were at work, nobody can take care of the 3 children: Lisa 1 year old, Harry 3 years old and Dominique 5 years old. Bringing them to day care needs even more expenses...and story goes on. One day he said to himself, "FML...!"

Is his life happy at all?
All he wants is to work and support his decent family. But despite what he wants, he did not get it.
What is wrong here?
He shouldn't get married?
He shouldn't have children?

Of course NO! What he did wrong here is that he work HARD. And he work hard ONLY.
He set a wrong objective of 'working hard to lead a better life'.

Don't be surprised this is what you always see around you!

Yes, we would like to have a better life, but working hard is not the solution. While we work, we need to find a way of working that can give us what we want.

Assuming his option here, a wife and 3 children. What he can do is to have lesser expenses, smaller commitment, use the money to grow for more money. The solution? Its in all my previous posts...