Use Your Travel Time Effectively
DL, a senior executive, sat next to me on the plane ride to LA. During the four-hour flight, he read a detective novel.
It relaxed him, he said. I wasn’t impressed.
My view is that business traveling time should be spent on business.
It’s only fair. After all, the business is paying for your ticket.
There’s no better time to catch up on paperwork than during a plane or train trip.
What I like to do is:
- knock off accumulated e-mails
- write “personal” business notes
- review my daily journal for new ideas and forgotten promises to myself
- plow through accumulated reading matter
While I’m doing this secondary stuff, I find myself thinking of “the big picture.” In fact, some of my most important business decisions have been made on airplanes.
So forget the junky novels and video distractions. Get something done. Then enjoy the feeling of stepping off the plane free of the burden of a ton of backed-up work.
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