Things to Keep You Busy on a Business Trip

Trav­el­ling between offices of dif­fer­ent regions have become a norm in the cur­rent busi­ness con­text.  Be it we fly to visit our sis­ter office or to meet client, we are spend­ing a fair amount of time trav­el­ling.  The prob­lem with trav­el­ling is that much of the time is wasted where you can­not really do any­thing.  That decreases our pro­duc­tiv­ity and sales!  There­fore, we need to take every oppor­tu­nity we have in the jour­ney and max­i­mize our time to get things done.  Here are a few things we find use­ful to occupy the time in dur­ing travelling.

1. Enter the busi­ness cards into your main con­tact list – It’s impor­tant to have knowl­edge of who you met.  You never know when you need their help.  How­ever, the task of con­sol­i­dat­ing your busi­ness card is so bor­ing at times how­ever, it has def­i­nitely value.  There­fore, use the free time you have on the plane and write down your busi­ness card con­tact infor­ma­tion into your main con­tact list.
2. Fill out the expense reports – Write down all your expenses.  Keep your receipts in a folder that you will eas­ily access it when you are mak­ing your com­pany claims.
3. Do some plan­ning – Now may be the right time for you to be alone to think about things.  It may not be easy to get the alone time when you are back in office and home.  So now is the chance and spend some giv­ing some deep thoughts about grow­ing your busi­ness or if you are employed, you think about your career progression.
4. Sort your text mes­sages – You can remove unwanted text mes­sages from your phone.  Save those impor­tant ones into archive.  This way your phone has the stor­age space and is ready for more new incom­ing messages!
5. Com­pose some emails – If you get delayed or wait­ing for the tran­sit flight, and you have the lux­ury of wire­less net­work in the air­port, com­pose some emails that will be used for a later stage.  Cre­ate your busi­ness email tem­plates if you have the time too.
6. Watch some videos – You’ve got to chill out a lit­tle.  Relax and watch a stored video.  But remem­ber to have suf­fi­cient power to last you through all the videos you have.  If you have run out of power, get a book instead!
7. Read some books – Grab one book before you embark on the plane.  Read­ing is a good way to kill time.  At the same time, you gain valu­able knowl­edge.  There­fore, spare some time to drop by the news­stand or book­store at the air­port and grab a book that can last you through the entire flight!

What are the things that you do to keep you busy?  We can use your tips too to keep our­selves occu­pied through­out the jour­ney (except sleeping)

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