Hard work vs. smart work. Which is better?

There is an interesting question: do you work harder or smarter than your competition? The answer: it depends on your goals and priorities. I'd prefer a mix: a lot of smart leveraged work.When you are working hard you are working for longer hours and for more days, where as when you are working smart you are leveraging your time and energy to get the best results possible with the least amount of energy. When you are working smart you are being efficient, lean and leveraging what ever you can.So, why does it depend?If you want to achieve something then you will need to work hours on achieving it and you will need to work smart in order to achieve it.If you and a competitor are working towards the same goal, then you can be working smart and simply outworking them. If you are twice as productive and working twice as many hours, then you will achieve your goal in 1/4 of the time.You can be working smart and achieving your goals and you can also be working hard. It depends on you and what your goals are. With smart work you can out leverage your competition, which means that you are doing the least amount of work and getting the most amount of energy.Be lazy and ambitious- be ambitious enough to achieve something, but find the most efficient and lean way of achieving it.Do the work once and get paid forever:use this as a standard as to what kind of infrastructure you should build. How can you create something that enables you to receive an income for ever? I am happy to do hard working on my system that I can leverage 24/7. By writing this blog and recording the corresponding video: I am having 100's of conversation all the time. I am leveraging the internet and YouTube to be found and to build my reputation.So I believe it is a mix. Hard work and leverage. Doing the least amount of energy needed to get the maximum amount of reward. But do more hours of hard work that is also leveraged work. You can outwork your competition and leave them behind in the dust when you are out smarting them. Be smart and work hard; be lazy and ambitious.You can outwork your competition, but you will have burn out. So you need to be working smart, but unless the smart work is consistent, then the hard work will overtake you.Learn more about this topic in one of my books:101 Entrepreneur Mistakes and Lessons.