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Nov 2024
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What it ACTUALLY Means to Work Hard

Dan Martell
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I know this might offend you, but you’re not actually working hard.

Even if you’re putting in 14 hour days, 7 days a week like I was building my first company.

That’s not hard work.

That’s just work.

Now you might be asking yourself the question: “What is hard work?”

Well… it’s not doing the thing you already know how to do.

TRUE hard work is what allowed me to go from a broke 17- year- old to a multi- millionaire today.

 So I’m going to share with you in this video what it actually means to work "hard”…

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