Turn travel stress into calm

In partnership with

Traveling, for work or fun, can be taxing.

How often have you been on a trip or conference and couldn’t stop thinking about the work piling up at the office?

Have you missed calls or deadlines on a trip?

Been there, done that.

I have ways to stay organized while traveling so I don’t come home to chaos and can focus without stress.

The Background Details

Like most people, I wasn’t a complete train wreck when traveling. It’s not like everything fell apart or I couldn’t keep track of anything.

However, I did get stressed around longer travel, I have missed a meeting before because I didn’t have my usual system in place (at my desk), and over time I found a few things that worked really well for me.

I’d suggest checking out the ideas I’m going to share and see which one you could implement on your next trip to make things easier.

Recommended

Making Travel Easier On Yourself

The first strategy I would recommend is to create a checklist in whatever app you find useful and easy to duplicate - for me it’s in Notion. Todoist, Google Keep, Google Docs would also be a good choice.

Write down a quick list of things you need to have with you for general travel. Don’t worry about nailing it 100% right off the bat - just add in what you think would be helpful as a reminder to pack. You can add, and remove, as you see fit over time.

Once you’ve got that done, add notes at the top for anything you need to do or consider before you leave. This is where the other tips come in handy…

Do a “future review”

Look ahead to your travel dates and the 1-2 days immediately after travel.

Are there any meetings you won’t be able to make? Any events that you need to reschedule? Any events that are so important you need to make sure you have backup reminders set?

Go ahead and make life easy after returning from your trip - if possible, block out at least ½ of your first day so that people aren’t able to book your time and you can focus on getting back into the swing of things.

Have alternatives

Will you be able to set reminders the same way when traveling?

Will you get those reminders?

If you need additional reminders, set those now or at the least set a reminder…to set those reminders.

It’s easy to get into our usual routine and forget how easy it can be to miss a single reminder when busy at a conference or visiting family and friends.

Put the important stuff up front

You’ve probably got a few things that have to get done, right?

Make sure you’ve got those front and center.

At home I use a whiteboard…but a 72” whiteboard doesn’t do me a lot of good when I’m traveling.

Instead, I put those big items in Google Keep and use a widget to put those front and center on my phone’s home screen. Every time I open my phone, I see them.

Wrapping up - it’s mostly about helping future you have an easy time and not expecting that future you to be in the same routine and mindset as when you’re in your usual environment. Help yourself out and evolve your travel checklist over time.

🦾 Master AI & ChatGPT for FREE in just 3 hours 🤯

1 Million+ people have attended, and are RAVING about this AI Workshop.
Don’t believe us? Attend it for free and see it for yourself.

Save your spot here. (100 free spots only)

Highly Recommended: 🚀

Join this 3-hour Power-Packed Masterclass worth $399 for absolutely free and learn 20+ AI tools to become 10x better & faster at what you do

👉Save your seat  now (FREE for First 100)

🗓️ Tomorrow | ⏱️ 10 AM EST

In this Masterclass, you’ll learn how to:

🚀 Do quick excel analysis & make AI-powered PPTs 
🚀 Build your own personal AI assistant to save 10+ hours
🚀 Become an expert at prompting & learn 20+ AI tools
🚀 Research faster & make your life a lot simpler & more…

👉 Register here (Offer valid for First 100 people only)🎁

Extra Extra

• Pretty excited about doing my next quarterly review. I’ve been adding my daily and weekly review notes to a Google Form to make it easier (video on that here). I’m also working on putting together a better solution called “Elevarly” - if you’d also like to get better insights from your regular reflections, let me know here.

One quick question 👋

I love hearing from readers, and I’m always happy to hear feedback from active subscribers. How am I doing with the Productivity Academy newsletter? Is there any content you’d like to see more or less of? Which parts of the newsletter (or articles, or podcast) do you enjoy the most?

Hit reply and say hello, happy to hear from you!

P.S. Looking for resources to improve your productivity? Check out the tools I use right here.