Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to plan your year's travel all at once.
Speaker 1: That way, you can say yes to including lots of
Speaker 1: different things in your travel portfolio, rather than having all
Speaker 1: your priorities compete against each other for every trip. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to plan a vacation with a group of
Speaker 1: people for a particular time, say you're planning your Christmas vacation,
Speaker 1: you may be dealing with a lot of competing desires.
Speaker 1: One kid is dying to go to Disney World. Another
Speaker 1: wants to go to New York to see a Broadway show.
Speaker 1: Another wants to stay home. You may want to have
Speaker 1: a meal you'll remember for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Your partner wants to go somewhere with kids club so
Speaker 1: you can get through a meal without cutting up someone's meat.
Speaker 1: It is going to be hard to satisfy all of
Speaker 1: those wants on any particular trip. That's why I think
Speaker 1: it's wise to take a different approach. Better to plan
Speaker 1: an entire year's travel all at once. If you are
Speaker 1: thinking now about any summer trips, go ahead and think
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring Break, and so forth. When you
Speaker 1: think about all of it, you can include all of
Speaker 1: it in your travel portfolio. After all, if you take
Speaker 1: a couple of trips per year, you can visit grandparents
Speaker 1: and taking nuclear family trip to a national park. You
Speaker 1: could go skiing and go to the beach. When you
Speaker 1: plan the year's travel all at once, you are not
Speaker 1: choosing between experiences for a particular vacation. You are simply
Speaker 1: figuring out when during the year you will do all,
Speaker 1: or at least most, of the things you want to do.
Speaker 1: When you plan each trip as a one off thing,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you will always be asking, well,
Speaker 1: should we be visiting family instead? Or why are we
Speaker 1: going skiing? You know I don't like skiing. Person A
Speaker 1: may argue against going to the beach because they're not
Speaker 1: a beach person and would prefer to go to Europe,
Speaker 1: rather than seeing that the year as a whole can
Speaker 1: contain both those things. There is also a practical reason
Speaker 1: for thinking about the year as a whole. You can
Speaker 1: manage your travel budget and your vacation days. Perhaps person
Speaker 1: A won't resent taking three days of PTO around Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: for a big family trip, or at least won't resent
Speaker 1: it as much if she knows that another four days
Speaker 1: are reserved for her preferred trip around President's Day in February.
Speaker 1: Planning a portfolio as a whole helps ensure balance and
Speaker 1: that everyone is happy, or at least reasonably happy. There
Speaker 1: is probably no trip that is fun for the whole
Speaker 1: family for the whole time, but planning a year's travel
Speaker 1: portfolio at once at least gets you pretty close. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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