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当然，这是一个有点令人生畏的，但随着我年迈50，我认为休息是探索的肥沃土地。
That is a slightly daunting prospect of course, but as I move into my fifties I’m thinking it is fertile territory for exploration.
事实证明，对我来说，没有每月的薪水带来的比限制自己视野要更多。以前，有薪水意味着我必须把注意力集中在特定背景下的一种特定活动上。这意味着拒绝许多迷人的可能性，仅仅因为它们不符合公司战略，或者我自己的个人或职业发展目标。
It turns out that, for me, the cost of not having a salary is more than outweighed by the benefit of not having to restrict my vision of the world to a particular lens. Previously, having a salary meant I had to focus my attention on one particular kind of activity in a particular context. That meant turning down lots of fascinating possibilities, simply because they didn’t fit with the corporate strategy, or my own personal or professional development goals for that period.
现在，我能够追随眼前看到的任何闪亮的东西，了解它会指引我去哪里。
Now, I’m able to attend to whatever shiny thing I have in front of me and see where it leads.
我一开始天真想象GTD®的技能不那么重要，因为我不那么忙，但事实上我发现情况正好相反。
I had naively imagined that the techniques of GTD® would be less important now that I’m less busy, but in fact I’m finding the opposite to be the case.
GTD标准并不具有固定性，对于我们中的许多人来说，在全职工作中很少有机会定期清理你的收件箱，或完成清单上所有的事。但在一个间休年，这种可能性确实存在。工作流程的减少意味着有时我能够坐下来，知道一切平凡的事情都得到照顾和控制。
GTD standards not with standing, for many of us in full-time work there is little chance of regularly clearing your inbox, or of actually getting to the end of the list.But in a gap year, that possibility actually does exist. The reduction in workflow means that sometimes I’m able to sit down, knowing that everything mundane is taken care of and under control.
