15. Have you ever successfully implemented advice from a quotation?

If you work in a self-aware production environment that's allowed to be a little bit cheeky, you have have seen this hanging around. And any place worth its salt will have this mindset. If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you. True for machinery and computers, but especially true for people. We're not machines in the steel-and-wire sense, but the organic-and-squishier kind.

I've grown a lot better at not putting off important health checkups, car upkeep, computer wrangling (ok– this last one I am still working on; when was the last time I ran MemTest?). That's all appointments and pro-activity, but I consider this other thing as an example of maintenance:

resting.

Give yourself a break. Decompress, cool off, what-have-you, reset. Do you know what happens when things keep running and running and running? It eventually breaks. That's true for your body and mind.

If you're like me and can't seem to sit still for long, you can Do Stuff while resting; just keep it low-key. Journaling or reading are great example of this, or taking your time with another soothing activity. Hell, do a hobby or something fun!

But it's okay to just do nothing for a bit.

Don't wait until you collapse.