Welcome to the Game Change Your Life.

I'm Dave Anderson.

In this episode, I want to talk about the truth about hard work.

You know, game changers understand the difference between hard and

smart work. In fact, they do hard and, underlining and smart work. And I'll tell you what,

I see this a lot, and I've spoken now in 18 countries. I speak about 120 times a year.

I've done this about 20 years. So you see a little of everything. And I have found that many, many people to see themselves into thinking they're hard workers. They say, oh, let me tell you, I'm a hard worker. I put in all these hours, I put in all these days. And they think they're hard workers simply because they're busy during the day or because they do rack up a lot of hours.

But the truth about hard work is that if it isn't smart work, it's dumb work.

And its primary accomplishment is wearing you out and leaving you unfulfilled, depleted, frustrated.

It's like if you look at the four groups that we talk about in every episode we do here

and in my book Unstoppable, and if you haven't read it yet, you should. There's some great

insights, not just from myself, I believe there's some great insights in there for me, but also

from 34 high-performing contributors in a variety of fields that will help you live the game

change your life. But one of the things you see is the difference between the undertaker, the caretaker, the playmaker, the game changer,

is the effort, the consistently focused effort that they bring to the table every single day.

Hard work that is smart is a key differentiator between those four groups. In fact, if you look at the eight key

trades, that the game changers more consistently bringing than the other groups, effort, energy,

enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, integrity. Go back to the first trade. Effort. Okay,

they're bringing that effort, but it's not just any effort. It's just not effort that's scattered,

that's just busy, that's a mile wide and an inch deep. It's very focused, intentionally focused

effort into high impact activities that create the most desirable outcomes. And so they've got that

focused effort, and that's where they're putting their energy,

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