Jeffrey C. Long

A few months ago I went through a season of trying to absorb every little jot and tittle of David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. I listened to the audiobook, put ebook of it and Ready for Anything on my pocket pc. Listened to the CD of his seminars. And implemented a lot of his ideas.Lately, I’ve noticed that I’ve settled back into a routine and have not been giving so passionate of attention to the details of the system. But my routine now has some new habits that are helping me with my workflow.I think there is an important lesson here. We often have mountaintop experiences, either with God, or at a seminar, or reading a book that inspires us to passionately pursue some new avenue. This energy lasts for a little while and then dissipates. But rather then get discouraged that we don’t have the fire we once had, I think it’s more important that we make little changes from these times of passion that change how we live our lives when we come back down from the mountain. Life isn’t lived on the mountain. But every now and then we need to go there to get fresh, and then come back down to our everyday situation and apply some lessons that we learned in the process.