If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Fisher contrasts the meticulous planning people devote to a short vacation with the comparatively unexamined way they often conduct their whole lives. The point is not that leisure planning is trivial, but that it exposes a mismatch in priorities: we can be highly deliberate about temporary pleasures while remaining vague about enduring purposes. Her phrase “false standards” suggests that social measures of success—busyness, productivity, status—can substitute for genuine aims, producing an “aimless procession” of activity. The quote functions as a call to intentional living: to articulate values and long-term goals with the same practical seriousness we apply to short-term logistics, and to let that reflection reshape daily choices.