Breaking The Hard Work Myth: Secrets Of High Achievers

In this eye-opening episode of "Beyond Common Business Secrets", we debunk the biggest myth of entrepreneurship: that hard work is the only way to succeed. Discover the secrets of smart, aligned action and learn why hustle culture might actually be holding you back. From practical strategies to mindset shifts, this episode will show you how to achieve success without burnout. 
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Are you ready to say goodbye to fear, frustration, and overwhelm when it comes to growing and scaling your business? You’re in the right place. Welcome to  Beyond Common Business Secrets Podcast I’m your host, Tracey Watts Cirino

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Tracey Watts Cirino: How are you? Have you ever heard the phrase?

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Hard work is the key to success.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: What if I told you that that's not entirely true.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: even though you may have been told this your whole life, right, like hard work, is the key to success. You have to work hard, you have to work hard. Oh, if you could only work harder like all of these things, right? So today we're going to debunk the myth and explore what really creates lasting success.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Spoiler, alert, it is not about hustling yourself into exhaustion.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe. If you're ready to learn smarter ways to thrive without the grind.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: so welcome to beyond common business secrets. I'm your host, Tracey Watts Cirino, a five-time international bestselling author, coach speaker, intuitive, guided Mentor. You can pretty much call me whatever you would like. I am here to serve.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: and to make sure that you have more amazing tips, tools, and strategies every single week to achieve your version of success. You know not somebody else's right, your version. So most of us.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: especially if you're anything like me. Most of us have been taught to equate success with hard work.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: so oftentimes it looks like hard work, more hard work, sleepless nights, and endless sacrifices, like giving up

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Tracey Watts Cirino: parts of your life like time with family. The ability to

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Tracey Watts Cirino: have a wellness, you know, have a wellness program for yourself. Have

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Tracey Watts Cirino: things that we do just to nurture our heart and soul. You know, oftentimes we equate success to giving all of this up right like you're gonna have to make sacrifices. It's gonna it's gonna be hard

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Tracey Watts Cirino: and then it's gonna get even harder, the more successful. Like every single layer, we often equate to more and more and more success. So we wanna make sure that this is not something that

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Tracey Watts Cirino: is you know, challenging us. So let's see.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: we want, yeah, we're gonna like, always do that more and more and more. So where we see this coming into play is that

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Tracey Watts Cirino: we often will think that. Oh, okay, well, if

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Tracey Watts Cirino: if I'm not willing to work even harder and make all of these sleepless nights, sacrifices and other endless sacrifices, when it comes to oftentimes time away from your family, you know it can even be harmful to your health.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: The truth really is like

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Tracey Watts Cirino: the truth. I always say it like this, because it's like, here's the real truth. Working harder doesn't always mean achieving more.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: So

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Tracey Watts Cirino: it can. In fact, it can often lead to absolute burnout frustration, and even missed opportunities. Because when you're pursuing things from this

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Tracey Watts Cirino: place of stress and like overwhelm. And you're like, you know, frantic, going crazy. And your head's exploding right when all of that is happening.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: that is going to look very different than what it might look like when you are taking action from a place of absolute alignment.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: So you might say, Okay, okay, I already know that. So what's like the secret sauce. So let's dive in hustle. Culture has definitely glorified, overworking. And like we're sick to death of this. It's like time for it to go away.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: but it also along with the hustle culture. It also ignores one crucial fact, and success is about working smart, right like working smart and then leveling up

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Tracey Watts Cirino: that you're working smarter, not just harder. Think about

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Tracey Watts Cirino: How often successful people will credit their achievements to

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Tracey Watts Cirino: maybe a 20 h work day.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: but also with, Oh, well, I was

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Tracey Watts Cirino: thinking it would be best to take a break today. So I went on a walk. I did did something with my family. I took a vacation like different things happen, because when you think about

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Tracey Watts Cirino: always just pushing, pushing, and stressing, that is going to lead to more burnout. And it's going to lead to you, making decisions from a place that is maybe out of alignment with what success is going to feel like for you in your body and how it's going to show up in your life. So it's like.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: when you talk to successful people they'll often talk about. You know the strategy. They used the focus and the alignment like you can take people like

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Oprah, Winfrey. Even Sarah Blakely, like they didn't just hustle their way to the top without aligning their actions with purpose. I know Sarah Blakely tells the story of being at Neiman Marcus, and sending a bunch of other people in the store to ask about Spanx, which was her product. So

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Tracey Watts Cirino: that was very strategic, and that was in alignment that wasn't about her herself having to work harder. So you want to think through

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Tracey Watts Cirino: what

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Tracey Watts Cirino: taking aligned action looks like. It's not just about working more and pushing and pushing for the sake of working more right?

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Tracey Watts Cirino: You can look at her career like I had, said Oprah.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: because they both focused on what mattered most and then delegated all the rest. Look at the most successful.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: you know, entrepreneurs and leaders in history. They focused on what they could do best and like what was meant just for them. But then they delegated everything else right? Because your job is to continue to grow and get better and stronger in every level. Right? It's not about just working more and more. So you want to think about how you can

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Tracey Watts Cirino: have a strategy that aligns with what you really personally consider success. What does success feel like for you? And then you want to focus from there. So another really important point is that when you align your goals with your purpose.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Work will often feel effortless, and you will work from this place of flow, and

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Tracey Watts Cirino: things will just like line up synergistically that it's like everything's working out like you might hit a roadblock. But it's just going to feel like a tiny little speed bump, because you've already got the momentum. So success comes naturally, because you're in this state of flow, and you have that feeling of inspired action. So this is where tools like

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Tracey Watts Cirino: human design.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: can come into play and and using our clarity tool. When you use our 7 layer clarity tool. This helps you really get super clear on what it is you really want. And then, when you use different tools like human design, you hire a coach, you work with a mentor to help you get your systems and strategies up effectively. This will help you.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: you know, when you work, when you use human design, and then you

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Tracey Watts Cirino: hire a mentor coach and start hiring some staff to help with what they're best at. This

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Tracey Watts Cirino: helps you understand your natural strengths and

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Tracey Watts Cirino: how to use them effectively. So this is going to help you in your own personal growth, in your business growth.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: in your personal relationships, and in your staff, and in growing that part of your business. It can also help you in the dynamics of managing your client relationships as well. So it's important from the standpoint of a more practical tip I can give you is, ask yourself, am I doing this because I love it.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: or because I think I should

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Tracey Watts Cirino: right like, am I doing this because my heart's really in this. And it's really something that I want to be doing, or am I doing this? Because I think I should

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Tracey Watts Cirino: the energy you bring to your work, and what you put behind it

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Tracey Watts Cirino: matters more than the number of hours you put in. So you really want to take action from a place of being inspired. Because then it's like, Oh, yeah, I love what I'm doing. This is definitely it.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: And when you take a break

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Tracey Watts Cirino: you take a break because you're divinely guided to that.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: So other something else you want to do is think about leveraging your systems.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: So when you leverage different systems and learn like the art of delegation. I always look at it like this. It's like smart systems and teamwork. Are the real game changers right? Because we were not supposed to just look at business like, Oh, yeah.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'm successful now and then, to be more successful, I have to work harder and harder and harder it is, you have an innovative idea or an innovative way, that you want to change the

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Tracey Watts Cirino: the way that business is done in your industry, and successful people know how to delegate tasks

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Tracey Watts Cirino: and automate processes so that they can focus on their zone of genius. Right? It's not that

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Tracey Watts Cirino: that you need to be doing everything and trust me, I live in the real world like I understand that in the beginning, when you don't have the money, or you know or know as many people in your industry. You are going to be the one that figures it out. And that's okay. Figure it out from that place of being fully aligned.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: because when you're in the state of flow, it's gonna attract more of the people that are going to want to work with you, whether it's as clients or as staff in your business. So the more you stay in this high vibe energy

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Tracey Watts Cirino: the the better. It's gonna be so

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Tracey Watts Cirino: an example of people that really know how to stay in their zone of genius is, instead of spending hours and hours on tasks that drain you like. What if you use that time to network right like, what if you went out and network? And even in the beginning, maybe when you don't have a lot of money you could.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: You can network with somebody else. That's really good at that task, and maybe they need something you have to offer. And then you like Co collaborate and you both help each other grow your businesses.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: You could also use this time to innovate like, really think of ways that you can innovate like what's a different way, that you can deliver what

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Tracey Watts Cirino: you know, what you've always done in your industry?

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Because the more you ask like, hmm! Is it really true that this is the only way that we can do this? Hmm. Is it really true that I have to do it this way?

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Is it true that

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Tracey Watts Cirino: this is the way, or is there a better way? You know, so oftentimes I will ask questions like that, and that will just

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Tracey Watts Cirino: stir and spark my creativity to where I come up with a whole new way. Another thing you can do is like rest. Rest is productive, too. It will fuel your creativity. You don't have to just keep pushing and pushing and pushing. You want to get plenty of rest, because the more rest you get, the more you will be high, vibe, so you'll be working from a place of

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Tracey Watts Cirino: being high vibe, which will attract more of the type of clients and businesses that you want to work with. So

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Tracey Watts Cirino: I have a challenge for you. Yay, so here's your challenge. I want you to take a look at your day and identify one thing that you're doing the hard way. And I want you to be really honest like. Hmm!

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Tracey Watts Cirino: What am I doing here? That is the hard way, and then ask yourself, is there a smarter, easier way to achieve the same result?

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Is there a quicker way to achieve the same result? Start there and watch how things shift.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: If this resonated with you, let me know in the comments what you're ready to let go of what you just realized. Oh, my goodness! I cannot believe that I was doing this hard way. I just have never given myself permission to look at it different. So you have full permission. You didn't need it, but you have it so don't forget to subscribe for more tips on thriving without burnout.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: and make sure you leave us a review and post your questions in the comments. So remember, success is not about working harder, no matter what your mom has ever told you. We're going to just get rid of that right. It is not about working harder. It's about working smarter, staying, aligned and honoring your unique gifts.

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Tracey Watts Cirino: You've got this. You've got this, you've got this. I'll see you in the next video and make sure you share this video and podcast with a business bestie. If you would like to dive even deeper into

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Tracey Watts Cirino: any area of your human design, or get some guided mentorship on what business systems and strategies will give you back so much more time creating more freedom and joy in your everyday life. I would love

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Tracey Watts Cirino: to be your coach, be your mentor, and help you on this journey, so all of our contact information is in the show notes as always stay beyond. Amazing, and I will see you on the next one. Take care.