I've been reading Scott Belsky's book "Making Ideas Happen" and while I find it easy to read, there are many things in there that require a lot of work! If only the act of reading a book can translate directly into the actions described therein...
Some key points that I've come across that I like a lot - making everything a project - small or big. That's really an interesting concept and does sound similar to something I heard when I went to Franklin Covey seminar (yes, I did do this in full earnestness). There the idea was to put the task down with a deadline. Not exactly the same, I understand, but really similar to philosophy.
Making things happen requires making them real, tangible and doable. By describing ideas and concepts into projects, and thereby making them discrete tasks has the psychological effect of making these ideas doable.
Interestingly enough this concept has parallels in software engineering. Make your code small and reusable and discrete. The concepts of making things discrete seems to be a theme that runs across multiple domains!
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