The Grand Gesture Strategy Boosts Your Motivation and Energy

The concept is simple. By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, you increase the perceived importance of the task. This boost in importance reduces your mind's instinct to procrastinate and delivers an injection of motivation and energy. Bill Gates was famous during his time as Microsoft CEO for taking think weeks. Alan Lightman also leverages grand gestures: He retreats each summer to a tiny island in Maine to think deeply and recharge.