{"id":981,"date":"2019-05-08T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:03:20","slug":"travel-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/travel-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How do you spend your time when traveling for business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you frantically check, recheck, and respond to email? Are you constantly on the phone, coordinating the latest project, or averting the latest crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve seen all kinds of crazy behaviors at airports. People who are clearly caught up in their own self-importance, who can\u2019t let go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been all kinds of crazy at airports and continuing onto the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long before the days of iPhones, I had a PDA. A PalmPilot<\/a>, with its nifty stylus and hand writing recognition. I even had a portable keyboard for my PalmPilot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This keyboard allowed me to write documents while on cross-country airplane trips without needing to use the heavy laptops of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember when iPods came along. The ability to carry your entire music library in your pocket! What a joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the way, I realized that the quality of work that resulted from my vain attempts to be productive even during travel time was so low that it was essentially pointless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I switched to carrying a thin Moleskine<\/a> notebook and a pen for those flashes of brilliance that came along during travel. Those flashes happened often enough to justify the price of official Moleskine notebooks, yet infrequently enough that a single notebook would last a couple months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big ah-ha that came along with this shift was that I am much happier. I arrive at my destination with far less stress. While I can\u2019t say that I enjoy travel by air, letting go of this compulsion to \u201cmake the most of the time\u201d has allowed me to at least tolerate the travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, letting go of a need to \u201cwork\u201d while traveling has actually turned out to be a more effective use of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the travel time to do nothing, while not quite recharging the batteries, has had the effect of allowing the batteries to not drain during that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try it sometime. Maybe even on your next trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give yourself a travel day (and one to get back). Do nothing other than transporting yourself from point A to point B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See if you don\u2019t arrive in better spirits, able to accomplish more overall than when you were frantically \u201cworking\u201d the whole time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share your results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, I have a book to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you spend your time when traveling for business? Do you frantically check, recheck, and respond to email? Are you constantly on the phone, coordinating the latest project, or averting the latest crisis? I\u2019ve seen all kinds of crazy behaviors at airports. People who are clearly caught up in their own self-importance, who can\u2019t … Continue reading Travel Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[6,7,52,9,8,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}