Easy Ways to Avoid Road Warrior Weariness

Road warriors are no strangers to burning out: your physical health, your stress levels, and your downtime are all affected by frequent business travel. We’ve come up with a few relevant tips to make the most of your time on the road, becoming a healthy, organized, tech-savvy traveler.

Take care of your physical health. It’s common knowledge that prolonged stress takes a toll on your physical health. Frequent time zone changes and inconsistent sleeping patterns alone are stressors, but then there’s the unhealthy food, excessive alcohol, exposure to airborne illnesses in airports—the list goes on.

If you make an effort to eat healthy food and take care of your physical health, you’ll be much better equipped to handle the less obvious stressors that come with frequent travel.

Get organized. Last-minute packing, racing to the airport, scrambling to find your boarding pass… Sound familiar? Disorganization can be a major source of stress, especially traveling in an unfamiliar environment. When you’re trying to focus on your work, being disorganized can distract you from tasks you need to complete. Many road warriors have a routine when they travel, which can certainly keep you on track.

If you have extra time on your trip, try to do something that you’d normally do at home. Watch a movie, go for a run, or crack open a book and a beer.

Let technology do the work for you. In the age of smartphones, digital currency, and “the cloud,” many manual processes are becoming antiquated and comparatively time-consuming. We sync our correspondence, our appointments, and our travel itineraries, so why not automate everything else?

When it comes to Travel and Entertainment expenses, there’s an app for that. Instead of fumbling to keep track of receipts at the airport or late-night number crunching in your hotel room, let technology do the work for you. Snap photos of your receipts, pre-schedule your expense report auto-generation date, and manage your expenses in real time all from your smartphone. Yes as easy as that in how to manage all your expenses.