Imagine at the end of this week you are going on vacation. What will you get done?…

You’ll probably plan the week better. You may maximise your opportunities. Meetings might run on time and they will probably be shorter. You might spend less time pressing send and receive. You might not waste time searching the internet for that dress you will not buy or the latest gadget which you do not need.

If you had planned to travel on Saturday morning, by Friday evening there is a strong possibility that you will have cleared your desk. Those niggling jobs that have been buried under paper for weeks will get cleared away. The calls you have been deferring will be made. Decisions that required your attention will have been done.

By the time you pack your bag you may well have done twice as much or more than you usually do in a week. You will feel great, like you really achieved something. All through your trip you’ll feel a lightness of being and you’ll say to yourself that it is the vacation that is making you feel that way.

The vacation may well add to your feeling of well being but actually that feeling started when you made a plan to clear your desk. When you resolved to work smarter not harder. When you set a deadline and had no choice but to stick to it. When you chose to act rather than react.

More good news, you have demonstrated to yourself what you can do. Why do you need a vacation at the end of the week to make your world more productive, to get energised?

Whether you are going on holiday or not, act as though you are. Resolve right now to do more this day, this week and every week. You’ll be amazed at what you get done, by how much time you will have spare and just how great you will feel.

And when you act this way, others around you will speed up and become more efficient and effective. You will create a world you will love to inhabit, a world to which abundance and success will be frequent visitors.

If you are going on holiday this week, have a great time. But on the day of your return make sure you bring back the winning formula you used the week you left!