1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,839 I like to use my travel time as much as possible to work on the 2 00:00:02,879 --> 00:00:07,040 business rather than in it, and I find that being in a different environment, 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,119 being out of my normal office and desk space, I find that that 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,519 helps me to shift out of the day to day habit that I'm in of. 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,160 Oh, sit down, and then work in the business like I usually 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,800 would. Welcome to imperfect Action, I'm Steph Taylor. For years, I 7 00:00:22,839 --> 00:00:26,600 read all the books, downloaded all the freebies, and did all the courses, 8 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,239 but it wasn't until I started taking imperfect action that my business had its 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:37,240 first million dollar year. Imperfect action is about doing things before you're ready, 10 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:43,200 prioritizing consistent action over perfect action, and moving forward even when you're not sure 11 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:47,359 you're doing it right. On this show, you can expect mindset advice, 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,039 actionable marketing tips and strategies to build a business that brings you more profit, 13 00:00:52,439 --> 00:00:57,640 more freedom, and even more joy. Are you on the list to get 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,679 my daily businesses every day I'll se and you are bite sized prompt designed to 15 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:04,799 help you grow your business in a more intentional way. Sign up at Steph 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,879 Taylor dot co ford slash DBB, or at the link in the show notes, 17 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:15,719 Hey, welcome back to in Perfect Action. This is episode seven hundred 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:23,400 and seventy four. Today I'm sharing seven things that made running my business while 19 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,560 traveling a whole lot easier. On my most recent trips, So if you 20 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:34,040 haven't been following along, I spent most of January and a little bit of 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:42,200 February of this year in France skiing in the beautiful French Alps. And while 22 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:47,120 I was over there, I worked a little bit, but I also really 23 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:52,079 enjoyed the skiing aspect, the travel aspect, and for the first time in 24 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:57,959 a while, I really felt like I had the balance between working and enjoying 25 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:01,200 where I was and enjoying the travel part. I felt like I actually had 26 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:06,120 that downpat for the first time in a while. Because I have done a 27 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,879 lot of travel while working, I've also done a lot of offline travel where 28 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:14,360 I've been completely offline and in some cases haven't even had my laptop with me, 29 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,840 like in twenty twenty two when I went hiking through the Outback for two 30 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:23,199 weeks, obviously didn't have my laptop with me, and back in twenty twenty 31 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:29,000 one, I took a whole month completely offline and traveled down the coast of 32 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:34,159 Australia in a van. So this was a bit more of a run by 33 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:39,319 business while traveling kind of holiday. So a couple of little things that really 34 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,639 helped. So first of all was keeping my laptop time zone set to my 35 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,439 home time zone. Now this seems so basic, but it was a tiny 36 00:02:50,479 --> 00:02:53,599 little thing that made a huge difference because it meant that I could see my 37 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,039 calendar in Brisbane time, in my home time, not in friend time France 38 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,479 time, because mentally converting time zones can be exhausting. So what I did 39 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,280 was I had my phone set to the local time where I was and my 40 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,080 laptop set to my home time zone, and then that way I could see 41 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,400 my calendar in whichever time zone I needed to. So if I, for 42 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:23,879 example, if I was booking a podcast interview on somebody else's show and they'd 43 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,280 sent me a calendar link and I was going to book it for after I 44 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,159 landed back home, I wanted to make sure that I was booking it in 45 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,879 a time that was going to be appropriate for home. I didn't want to 46 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:38,039 accidentally book it in the middle of the night or four am or on the 47 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,199 wrong day. So it made it really easy to just be able to quickly 48 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,919 refer to, oh, what day and what time is that going to be 49 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,000 back home when I'm back. And it also really helped because my team are 50 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:52,879 mostly all in Australia, so at least then when I opened my laptop, 51 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:54,840 I could ride away see oh great, it's seven am. Then none of 52 00:03:54,879 --> 00:04:00,800 them are online yet, and that just saved me a lot of mental arithmetic 53 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,159 of what is it minus ten hours or plus ten hours, and what day 54 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:11,199 is it and all of that conversion, which when you're in somewhere like America, 55 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:15,639 for example, and you live in Australia, then there's even the factor 56 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,439 of like what day is it? Day ahead? Is it day behind? 57 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,279 I can never remember, So I highly recommend making that small little tweak if 58 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,920 you are going to be traveling and running your business. The second thing that 59 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:32,800 I found really helpful was getting into a routine. Now I find even in 60 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:36,879 normal everyday life, if I don't have a routine around work, then I 61 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,759 struggle to get my brain into work mode. This can be a lot harder 62 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:46,600 if you are traveling in multiple cities and stopping over for short amounts of time, 63 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,839 which is why if I'm going to be working on a trip. I 64 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:54,639 also like to be traveling for a little bit longer in one place, and 65 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,879 I like to live a little bit more like a local, so that it's 66 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,600 not this quick dash from one's to the next, and oh, I've got 67 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,079 to try and see all of the things in this one city, and I've 68 00:05:03,079 --> 00:05:08,120 only got two days to do it. So I much prefer spending a longer 69 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,079 period of time in one area. My most recent trip that I did to 70 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:16,040 the French Alps, I was in the ski town for about twenty two days 71 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:19,160 or twenty three days, and I had about twenty days of skiing, which 72 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:23,439 was awesome. I woke up, I did a few hours of work, 73 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,079 I skied for a few hours. Some days I skied longer. Some days 74 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:29,720 I didn't ski as much, depending on the weather, depending on the snow. 75 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:32,079 And then some days so I had friends there for a little while. 76 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,360 Some days I had lunch with them. We had a big lunch, and 77 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:38,759 then after that I was pretty useless and I just wanted to nap. Other 78 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,800 days, after I finished skiing, I found a comfy chair at the base 79 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,839 of the mountain and I had a nice cold beer and I read my book. 80 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,639 With the beautiful view on days when I knew that I had to stay 81 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,759 up late. So you know, I had some calls because my all of 82 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:59,279 my courses and programs are set to Australian mornings for the calls, so I 83 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,959 knew I had to stay up late to do those calls. So on those 84 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:05,000 days I went back to my Airbnb, I did a little bit more work, 85 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:08,439 I had some dinner, maybe did a bit more work after dinner, 86 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,759 just to keep my brain awake and stop me from falling asleep. There were 87 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,240 some evenings where I woke up, I had a nap, and I woke 88 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:19,040 up literally fifteen minutes before the call because I just knew I needed that energy. 89 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:24,160 But the main thing was I got into a bit of a routine with 90 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,040 each day around Okay, this is when I'm working, and this is when 91 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,959 I am going to be having fun and skiing or hanging out with friends, 92 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,720 or going out for meals or going for a walk and enjoying the area that 93 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:40,000 I'm in. I really also recommend. Something that I did this trip that 94 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:45,360 I haven't done previously was trying to intentionally cluster my calls together. So I 95 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:48,720 did my best to make sure that most of my calls were scheduled for Thursday 96 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,800 mornings Australian time, so then I was only having to stay up late on 97 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 that Wednesday night, and that meant, you know, one call my eight 98 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,519 am calls in Australian time, I were eleven pm in France, which is 99 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:06,959 really late to stay up when you are an early morning person like I am. 100 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:10,240 But at least I only had to stay up late that one night, 101 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,360 and I could back to back a few calls, so I had ten pm 102 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:18,279 and then eleven pm for example. The third big thing that made a massive 103 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:25,920 difference was setting strict boundaries with my time. So the idea here is that 104 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:30,839 if you have boundaries between your travel time or relaxation time, whatever you want 105 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:34,079 to call it, and your work time, then you can make the most 106 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:39,199 of both of them, rather than making the mistake that I made when I 107 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,480 went traveling for the first time after starting my business back in twenty seventeen, 108 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,319 where when I wasn't working and I was out enjoying myself, I felt really 109 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,079 guilty because I knew how much work I still needed to do, and when 110 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,199 I was working, I felt really guilty because I was in Lisbon, Paris 111 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:03,399 or beautiful places and I wasn't enjoying where I was, so at least if 112 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:07,639 you know, if you have those boundaries around what hours you're going to work 113 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,480 and what days you're going to work, then if you stick to those, 114 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,399 then that removes that element of guilt and it really it ties in with your 115 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:18,879 routine. So what hours will you work? What hours will you not work? 116 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:24,639 If you are traveling with friends or partner or family, communicate this to 117 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:28,319 anyone else that you are traveling with as well. Tell them I'm going to 118 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:33,559 be working from seven till ten each morning, and then I'm free to do 119 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,039 any travel activities so that there's that expectation ahead of time. They know, 120 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,360 okay, great, So if I want to go for breakfast before ten am, 121 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,679 I'm going to be having breakfast by myself. Communicate this. If you 122 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,159 have a team, communicate this with your team so they know what hours to 123 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,240 expect you online and offline. And also put in your calendar what city you're 124 00:08:52,279 --> 00:08:56,000 going to be in. I know that this has been a bit confusing for 125 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,720 my team in the past. They're like, you're in America, but which 126 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:01,879 time zoning you in because I have no idea what time it is for you. 127 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,759 So communicate all of those things with your team so they know exactly when 128 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:11,440 they can expect you online and offline. My friend Anita who Anita Seek, 129 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,480 who was a guest on this show not that long ago, about a month 130 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,360 ago a week, did some episodes and she said that one of her tips 131 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,720 for travel is that she has half an hour or an hour every day when 132 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:28,159 she's traveling where her main operations team member is online at the same time, 133 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,480 and they use that one hour to just get through anything that they need to 134 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:35,039 both get through. So if you can do that with the time zones that 135 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,840 you're working in and your team are working in, then you can potentially do 136 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:43,759 that as well. I also find that booking a longer period of travel can 137 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:50,759 be a great way to start setting your business and your team to rely on 138 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:54,080 you a lot less because so it relies on you less because it's forcing you 139 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,000 to figure out exactly what tasks you have to do every single day, and 140 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,519 it forces you to either do this tasks before you go, do them while 141 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:03,960 you are there, which a lot of the time you might want to do 142 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,600 those while you're traveling, in which case you then need to maybe delegate them 143 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,039 to your team or you need to find a way to automate or systemize them, 144 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,000 or in some cases maybe you'll realize that the tasks you were doing weren't 145 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,679 that important and you can delete them from your to do list. Right, 146 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,879 the little admin things that don't need to be done, great, we can 147 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:31,200 delete those. And when I'm traveling, I find that because I'm usually wanting 148 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,399 to only work like two or three hours in a day. If that, 149 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:39,279 then I find that I'm very selective about what I work on and I'm become 150 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,120 a lot better at prioritizing. So I delete the tasks that don't need to 151 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:48,559 be done or aren't as important. And then the other thing to consider is 152 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,960 what do you want to work on? What do you not want to work 153 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,639 on while you are traveling? So, for example, I don't want to 154 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:58,399 be recording podcast episodes while I'm traveling. It's there's just too many variables around 155 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:03,559 sound quality, around the lighting, Like I don't know if the Airbnb I'm 156 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,559 going to go to, So the one that I was in France, it 157 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,000 was not soundproof, and the building it was like, I don't know, 158 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,120 it was wooden or something, and everybody on all sides of the building above 159 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:20,320 downstairs either side of the apartment. Whenever they came and went, it was 160 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:24,799 so noisy. So I wouldn't want to be recording podcast episodes in that environment 161 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:30,039 where I can't control that kind of sound quality. I also then can't record 162 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,879 video, which I prefer to record video with my episodes if I can. 163 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,200 So instead, what I did was I batched those podcast episodes ahead of time 164 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,879 before I went, and I didn't have to worry about it for an entire 165 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,879 month, which was awesome. I also find having a list prepared of things 166 00:11:45,879 --> 00:11:50,000 that I want to work on on the business can be quite nice. I 167 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,120 like to use my travel time as much as possible to work on the business 168 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:56,840 rather than in it, and I find them being in a different environment, 169 00:11:56,039 --> 00:12:01,320 being out of my normal office and desk space, I find that that helps 170 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,000 me to shift out of the day to day habit that I'm in of Oh, 171 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,840 sit down and then work in the business like I usually would. So 172 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,559 I made a list of things that had been on my like, oh, 173 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,639 I want to do these someday. I made that list and I started chipping 174 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:22,360 away at some of those tasks, which was really fun actually, and because 175 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:26,279 I was in that new, new environment, my brain was able to be 176 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,320 a little bit more creative than it usually is in its everyday environment, which 177 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:37,080 is my home office. All right. The next thing that I have always 178 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,519 like whenever, ever since I started traveling and working, and even now, 179 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,360 I think that this is a non negotiable, and that is having a dedicated 180 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:52,000 workspace. So in other words, not working in the same place that you 181 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:58,200 relax. I find it so challenging to switch from relaxing mode to working mode 182 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,879 when I'm traveling. So have it a desk at my airbnb or even just 183 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:09,039 like I don't know, a chair at the kitchen table where I can sit 184 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,639 down and activate activate work mode. That makes such a difference. It makes 185 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,039 it so much easier to switch from relaxing to working. Your brain creates these 186 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,200 associations with particular places. So for example, if you're staying in one town 187 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:26,519 for a while and you find a cafe you always like and you always sit 188 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,440 down in the window seat, and as soon as you sit down you do 189 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,000 an hour of deep focused work. Guess what your brain is going to associate 190 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:35,799 that window seat in that cafe as where you do deep focused work. So 191 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,559 when you sit down, it's going to naturally be a lot easier to start 192 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,919 those kinds of tasks. There. On the flip side, your brain is 193 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,799 also probably going to associate your bed with sleep and your couch with relaxing, 194 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,360 so you're gonna find it a lot harder to motivate yourself and find that energy 195 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,720 to do work when you are sitting on the couch with your feed up. 196 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,960 It Also, having a dedicated workspace also helps to create that boundary between work 197 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:05,480 and travel fun relaxing mode, right because otherwise you can very easily find yourself 198 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:09,519 in that gray area where you're half working, you're replying to emails while you're 199 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,919 chilling on the couch, and it's not really productive work, but it's not 200 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,080 relaxing either, and then you don't feel like you've even had a holiday. 201 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:20,480 And when you're on the couch on your laptop, your family doesn't know that 202 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,840 you're necessarily in work mode, or your travel companions, your friends, whoever 203 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,879 you're with, they don't know that you're in work mode, so they don't 204 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:31,120 know not to disturb you. Whereas you can create that boundary of hey, 205 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,279 when I'm sitting at this desk or I'm sitting at this table, or when 206 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:37,399 I physically remove myself and go and sit at the cafe across the road. 207 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,519 That is, when I'm in work mode. Please don't disturb, okay number 208 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:50,360 five and not relying on hotel or Airbnb WiFi for calls. This has nearly 209 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,000 got me into trouble a few times. And now when I land in another 210 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:58,679 country, I download an eSIM as soon as I can. So if you 211 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:01,320 have a new Ish I. I'm not sure about other I'm not sure about 212 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,759 Android, but I know with iPhones, the Newish ones, you can download 213 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:07,799 an e SIM so you don't have to even get the physical sim card anymore. 214 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:11,799 It's like a little digital sim. And I make sure that it's one 215 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,039 that allows me to hot spot my phone, because some of them will only 216 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,919 give you Internet that you can use on your phone, but you can't hotspot 217 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,039 it to your laptop. And then I have a backup internet connection for my 218 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:28,720 laptop. And this really saved me in France where the second airbnb that I 219 00:15:28,759 --> 00:15:31,919 stayed at, so I spent half the trip in one place and half the 220 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,960 trip in another place. The second airbnb that I was at didn't have Wi 221 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:43,080 Fi. Now I'm so accustomed to Airbnb's having Wi Fi that I almost like, 222 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,679 actually, don't even check anymore that they include Wi Fi because I just 223 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,879 assume that they're going to have Wi Fi, like it's so readily available and 224 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,919 so cheap in most places now. But this one didn't have Wi Fi. 225 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:56,720 So I had to hot spot my phone to be able to do all of 226 00:15:56,759 --> 00:15:58,879 my calls. I went through, like I don't know, I think it 227 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:04,159 was like a hundred gigabytes of data just doing the calls for my programs that 228 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,639 I had to run while I was over there, and recording and uploading a 229 00:16:08,639 --> 00:16:12,080 couple of things. It is also this has saved me a few other times 230 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,279 when the hotel or airbnb WiFi has been a bit slow and patchy. You 231 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,399 know those times when it's like it's there, it's good enough to maybe scroll 232 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:22,919 through social media, but it's not good enough to do a zoom call. 233 00:16:23,759 --> 00:16:27,440 This is when having an eSIM has saved me a lot. So I have 234 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:34,279 an app called air r Lo Airlo and it just has all of the eSIMs 235 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,360 for different countries and you can search the country and then when I land in 236 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:41,080 that country, I download a new simcard on the free airport Wi Fi. 237 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,879 It's usually only a couple of dollars, depending how long you're staying and how 238 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,519 many gigs of data you want. So I'll download the new SIM card when 239 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:53,320 I land, and then I have data that I can use on my phone, 240 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,480 and I don't have to pay roaming fees, and I can hotspot my 241 00:16:56,519 --> 00:17:00,840 forward to my laptop, save me money, and it's generally going to be 242 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:07,359 a reliable source of Internet. That said, I do if I'm going to 243 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,440 a new place I've never been before that is not a major city, I 244 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:18,319 will look up the coverage maps to see what phone networks have coverage and make 245 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,839 sure that they at least have four G, like decent four G coverage, 246 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,720 so that if the Wi Fi and the Airbnb is no good, then I 247 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:30,000 can get a simcard for that particular phone network if the e SIM isn't connected 248 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:34,039 to that phone network, and I at least have four G signal, which 249 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,079 is kind of the bare minimum that I need to be able to run zoom 250 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:41,440 calls for my courses and programs. So that's a little hot tip for you, 251 00:17:42,599 --> 00:17:48,240 Okay, Number six. I like to use travel time to do the 252 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:53,319 things that I don't usually have time for. This is something that I've always 253 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:59,359 always stuck to. I love it because man like, we have so much 254 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,079 downtime on planes. And yes, sometimes I will climb onto a plane and 255 00:18:03,079 --> 00:18:06,279 if it's the evening, I will just have a glass or two of wine 256 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:07,799 and watch a movie and go to sleep. Like I'm not one of those 257 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:12,000 people who is always productive on a plane. But if it's a daytime plane 258 00:18:12,039 --> 00:18:15,920 flight and I have a bit of I have in flight Wi Fi, then 259 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,000 I will use that time to catch up on an online course that I've bought 260 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,160 and haven't got around to finishing yet. Or if the plane doesn't have Wi 261 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,240 Fi and there's some kind of particular focused work that I need to chip away 262 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:30,720 at, then I'll make sure I have the document downloaded and I'll work offline 263 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:37,599 on it. I remember actually once on a daytime flight from Australia to the 264 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,319 State. It was obviously it was like a ten am flight or something, 265 00:18:41,319 --> 00:18:45,440 so I wasn't going to sleep and I spent that flight I wrote our entire 266 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:51,079 affiliate guide and swipe copy for a launch Magic Launch, which that was like 267 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,839 more than twenty pages of words. Basically I wrote that over the flight, 268 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,599 which it's like a thirteen hour flight, and it made it go so much 269 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,279 quicker then if I'd just been sitting there watching movies or binge watching a series 270 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,839 and trying to maybe sleep during the day, which there was no chance that 271 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,920 was going to happen. On my way back from Europe. In this most 272 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,200 recent trip, I had a six hour layover in Dubai and I used that 273 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:18,200 as a chance to catch up on a coding course. So I'm learning how 274 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,480 to code in Python, and I used that as a chance to catch up 275 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:26,799 on that course because it kept my brain more awake. Like I'd just come 276 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:27,880 off a long flight, I was feeling a little bit jet lag, a 277 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,039 little bit tired, and I knew that if I sat there and tried to 278 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,000 read or if I was scrolling through social media, I would probably get really 279 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,359 sleepy. So I was like, well, how can I do this to 280 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,599 keep How can I do something to keep my brain awake? So I caught 281 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,720 up on that course. So find the things that you don't usually have time 282 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:48,839 to do and use your travel downtime as a way to catch up on those. 283 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,519 And then finally, oh, this is this is a great This is 284 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:57,720 like the biggest tip I can probably give you, and that is pack a 285 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:03,119 good pair of noise canceler headphones. I don't think this just applies to running 286 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,000 your business while traveling. This applies to any kind of travel. Like, 287 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:11,160 noise canceling headphones make travel in general just so much nicer, so much more 288 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,519 pleasant. If I'm on a plane and I want to focus on some work, 289 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,640 I put my headphones on. I have a good little focus playlist, 290 00:20:18,079 --> 00:20:23,920 and then even the loudest screaming baby becomes white noise. If you are traveling 291 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,960 with other people and you need to focus on work, noise counseling headphones can 292 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,359 block out their noise, like, for example, if you are in a 293 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,680 small hotel room or a small airbnb and your kids are in the same room 294 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,319 as you and they are watching TV and you need to focus, put the 295 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,079 headphones on. They can also be like a nice way of signaling to your 296 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,640 family, Hey, when my headphones are on, don't disturb me. I 297 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,119 don't typically travel with a lot of tech. I just take my headphones, 298 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:52,000 like that is my main piece of tech that I cannot travel without, even 299 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:55,599 on short trips, like even if I am just flying down to Sydney, 300 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,920 I will take my noise counseling headphones with me so that I can have a 301 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,920 pleasant one hour flow light. Some people I know take a lot of tech 302 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,759 with them. Some people I know will take portable ring lights so that they 303 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:10,680 look good in their calls. They'll take microphones to record things, et cetera, 304 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:14,319 et cetera. I don't take any of that. I batch my podcasts 305 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,799 before I go, and I rely on my built in webcam of my Mac. 306 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,720 I rely on my built in microphone on my Mac because it's pretty good 307 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:25,279 quality. Actually, this episode you are listening to right now is recorded on 308 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:29,640 the built in microphone on my computer. Would you believe it? Because I 309 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,839 did not get ahead on my episodes before I headed over to New Zealand, 310 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,599 So I'm recording this one from a Mac microphone. Not terrible. It's not 311 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,240 as great as my normal microphone, but it's not terrible either. So there 312 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:45,119 you have it. Those are a couple of things that made running my business 313 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,880 while traveling a whole lot smoother. If you have learned anything from this episode 314 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,720 or any of the other episodes on this show, please take thirty seconds to 315 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:59,079 leave a quick rating and a review in Apple Podcasts. I read all of 316 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,119 them, my team read all of them. 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