Do you know what the word labor means? It is petty simple if you simply start thinking "to labor" means "to work", but there's a difference between them. The difference is that if you're laboring, it means you're engaged in your work, you're being productive. The same doesn't always apply to the verb to work. You can say you've been working on your project for the past 5 months, but never really been committed to it.
But let's say the same project might get you a promotion. That would make you so much more encouraged to finish it, wouldn't it? Even if it required you extra hours of work or even many sleepless nights, you'd still try to make it on time. That's what we call motivation. If you're motivated by a special reason (maybe a bonus, an advantage), you suddenly become a much more productive worker.
Still talking about the supposed promotion you're trying to get, let's suppose you find your boss and tell him how much you've worked on your project lately. Instead of getting a positive response, he then pauses and says: If you're laboring under the notion that you are going to be promoted, you'd better keep your expectations low.
When you're laboring under the notion/idea/assumption of something, it means you're functioning or operating believing something. You're going about living while assuming something. In that case, you labored under the idea that you were going to be promoted. Now that you know that might not ever happen, you'll be no longer as energetic as before.
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