- Why the hell would you travel and do work?
It doesn't make sense to me.
Now, if you're traveling for work,
that's a different story, right?
You are going somewhere, meeting a client
or have a business meeting or you have a speaking gig
or you're gonna close a deal, that's a different story,
then you are traveling for work.
However, if you're traveling for vacation,
then, and again as an entrepreneur,
we're all busy, we have a lot of things to do,
a lot of things we need to get done.
But sometimes you need to give yourself that downtime.
Now, this is kind of what I do,
I'm not saying this is what you should do,
I'm just saying that this is what I do.
I can only speak from my own experience, right?
So, when I'm traveling, if I'm traveling for work,
usually if I'm going some place,
if it is a place that I like to visit,
that I would like to vacation a little bit,
I would either stay a few extra days,
or go there a few extra days earlier
and do all the traveling, do all the vacation there
and then I would do the work that needs to be done
and that's great, right.
Or, if I am actually on vacations,
very often I like to unplug because I need that space.
I need that, that mental kinda bandwidth
to kinda recharge my battery a bit, right,
'cause when we are working,
especially at a very high level, we go hard, right.
We are working very, very hard.
So, when I'm traveling, when I am taking time off,
I like to be, like, having the time off,
meaning that I'm not checking emails,
I'm not doing any of that, I'm just relaxing, right.
And maybe I'll also like to catch up on some reading,
some reading that I like to do, I read all the time.
But then maybe, I would do even more reading,
I would do some thinking time
and I would like to see things and meet new people,
that's I think what traveling is all about.
It's experience things that you may not usually experience
in your hometown, right?
You go and meet new people, you try new food,
you see new things, that's what I'm talking about.
If you actually have to catch up on some work,
what I'll recommend is, maybe in the daytime,
you're out there sightseeing and doing different things,
but in the nighttime you can catch up on emails
and different things that you have to do
or get back to a client or things like that,
which that's also something that you can do.
Now, also would recommend to communicate ahead of time
to your clients or to the people around you,
if you have a team, that what to expect, right?
Don't go ghosting on them, but let them know,
hey, you know what, I'm gonna be gone for five days
and, for the middle, like in the middle of the week,
the first day, last day you should get a hold of me,
but, in the between those three days, maybe you,
don't expect me to get back to you,
don't expect me to take phone call
and don't expect me to check emails.
So, you kinda set the expectation and boundaries, right,
that's also very, very good.
Now also when you're traveling,
you have, what I call, a lot of downtime.
Maybe when you are waiting at the airport, right?
Maybe when you are flying, maybe you, it's a long flight.
Those times you could sleep but that's also a great time
to catch up on some work and also to get some stuff done.
'cause when you are flying on a plane,
no one is bothering you.
You can get some work done.
There's no distraction.
And you can actually get a lot accomplished, right?
Maybe you don't even turn on the wifi,
you just put your head down
and get some work done, that's great.
Or when you are on a Uber or when you are on a taxi,
you're going somewhere,
you can listen to some audio program,
you can turn that downtime into productive time,
that's also another great way to do it.
So, I believe, if you're gonna travel,
you're gonna relax, relax,
you're gonna work, then work.
But don't feel obligated that you have to work
because you have to.
So, you work hard, so if you're traveling,
give yourself some time to relax, recharge your battery
and then come back and you can work harder.