According to Osho, yes: true hard work is “effortless effort”—total activity without the strain of a future goal. Effort, being result-oriented, is half-hearted; hard work is doing something completely for its own sake, here-now, from joy—like singing, meditating, loving, flowering. Drop the calculating mind and devote daily time to intrinsic acts; then work becomes intensity without tension.
Yes—do things fully because you love doing them now, not to get something later.