work hard vs work smart

what are the differences? are they same? which one is better? and which one should come first?
Recently i read a story circulated in my email. It goes like this:

There was once a young lumberjack who went up to the jungle for logging. He had some colleagues who were quite old compared to him. This young man decided to work hard everyday since he is still young. He wanted to chop down as many trees he can while he is still young and full of energy. therefore, he worked hard everyday from morning to evening. Main while, his old colleagues were enjoying a more relaxed work where they always rest and make drinks and chatting with each others. They often invite the young man to join but he refused as he don't want to waste his time in relaxing.
Few months passed and the young lumberjack found that although those old men are relaxing more than him, but the amount of tree they able to chop down is always equal or sometimes even more than him. He was confused. "How could this happend? I am defenetly working more than them, yet my output is same with them..." He mumbles himself.
One day one of the old man invited him to join them for a short break and drink. He refused at first but after the old man compel him, he joined them for drink. While drinking with them he found the secret of them! "Now I understand how those old guys can chop down trees so fast" He thought.

What is the secret of the old men? How come they can chop down many trees despite they rest and relax so much compared to the young man? The secret is.......
Its true the old men rest a lot, but, whenever they were taking their break, they actually were whetting their axes, which means their axes are always sharp! With an sharp axe, they can chop down tree very fast. But the young man was working all day long without sharpening his axe, so, with an blunt axe, he can't cut down many trees although he was working very hard!

From this story, I realized some points:
First of all, its not the matter of get the things done, but how effectively who do it is more important. With effective working, we will enjoy what are we doing actually since we wouldn't be tension of doing the job.
Therefore, i think firstly, we need to work smart, and after that, with a little bit of extra effort (working a little harder) we put will give us even better result. Work hard itself is not sufficient, and working smart will only be just enough for us to finish our work. For the best result, first we need work smart, then work hard.

So friends, lets start with work smart, then work hard. We need both of it!

How to work smart? Its easy, first of all, lets "Think Out Of Box", how? coming soon in my next blog... ^_^