A Survival Guide for Too Much Business Travel

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A Survival Guide for Too Much Business Travel

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Business travel is fun. Except when it's not. Here's what made a crazy travel schedule more tolerable for me during the winter and spring of 2011.

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A Survival Guidefor Too Much

Business Travel

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Traveling rocks!

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Except when it doesn’t.

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Things that help make it tolerable….

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Hanging with friends.

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Seeing virtual colleagues.

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Puerto Rican rum. (Thanks, Raul!)

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Finding creative places to tuck the mic.

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Checking luggage.*

*(What’s the big deal?)

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Taking an iPhone photo as solution to: ‘I think I’m on the 5th floor…. Wait. Maybe not.’

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Showing up when no one thinks you will.

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An occasional Coke (and a smile).

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Not taking things quite so seriously.

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Finding the humor in the everyday…

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…And being wowed by the ‘Wow’ moments.

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Being thrilled by the unexpected.

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Seizing respite when you chance upon it.

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Charging when you get a chance.

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Having someone

else do the driving.*

*(And not just anyone, either. Someone you

like a lot helps.)

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Surrounding yourself with people who matter.

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Finding art.

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Never passing up an opportunity to do something you might never have a chance to do again.

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Having a few laughs.

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Ice cream.

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Remembering that

sometimes, it’s worth waiting for someone to get

back from break.

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Resting when you can.

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Sampling the local cuisine

(and hardware services.)

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Connecting with old friends.

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Getting chauffeured

from the airport.

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Making new friends.

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The quirky charm of

South Dakota.

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Food that smokes.

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Drinks at one of the

oldest pubs in the US.

(In Philly. I think.)

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Finding the best crepes

in the world at an unexpected

place.

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Looking up.

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Chicago pizza.

(When the pizza came, I was too busy

eating to take a photo. Here’s

the graffiti wall instead.)

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Philly cheese steaks.

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Bar games with colleagues.

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Almost anything

about London.

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Forcing your kids to smile

for photos when you

ARE home.

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And coming home again.

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Ann Handley

Author, Content RulesContentrulesbook.com

Chief Content Officer,MarketingProfs.com

Twitter: @marketingprofs