Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
Interpretation
People feel more positive before vacations due to completed tasks and self-reflection, suggesting this mindset should be embraced more often.
David Allen points out that the sense of fulfillment and happiness people experience just before going on vacation comes from having cleared their obligations and reassured themselves of their commitments. He suggests that this state of being—marked by a sense of accomplishment and renewal—should be cultivated more frequently throughout the year, rather than being limited to the occasions of vacations.
In practice
During a motivational seminar where the speaker discusses achieving a balanced life.
It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.
Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
Everything is possible at any one competition.
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines
I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.
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