The planning I showed you in the practical section — first on an abstract example, then on my personal one — is quite a tiring activity, especially for beginners. You can get tired and burn out both over the long haul (from planning each month) and over the short haul (planning for each day).
In this section we will look at one of the first pieces of advice I would recommend applying at minimum to beginning gurus, and at maximum to everyone. To avoid burnout in such a frantic pace of life, you can take a "vacation" from planning and carry out tasks for only 11 months, devoting 1 month exclusively to rest. If one month of rest is not enough for you, work on planning for 10 months and rest on vacation for 2 months. Achieving goals can be considered real work — work where you are not working for an uncle, aunt, or the state, but working for yourself and on yourself. And in such work, breaks and vacations are needed too.
At the very beginning of the Annual Guru section I recommended that you divide all your tasks for the year into 4 equal quarters. Well, this rule works only when you are working on yourself all 12 months of the year. You can disregard this rule if you want a year with a vacation from planning. To do this, you should deliberately spread all your tasks across quarters unevenly, with a bias toward the other quarters in which you do not have a vacation. In turn, you should plan as little as possible for the quarter with a vacation, so that you still manage to get everything done. And in general, if you are planning a year with a vacation in mind, you may have to abandon some goal so as not to overstrain yourself in the remaining months by working overtime on the very goal that was supposed to fall in the vacation month.
And although I do not take vacations from my personal life, I would strongly recommend that you do. Especially if you are only starting to use the Annual Guru methodology. There are at least 2 major advantages to this. The first we have already described: the opportunity to rest from plans and goals. The second advantage is the opportunity to calmly finish loose ends and all the tasks you did not manage to complete during the main part of the year. This way, it removes a problem such as cutting corners, which we will talk about later.
