Using a powerful trip planner like Route Perfect can help you carve out the perfect vacation road trip! However, this can be impacted quite negatively if you know you will have to work on the trip. To make this an issue that you’re less likely to experience, there are a few key features of the software that might help you. Let’s talk about some great ways to balance work and play while you’re on vacation!
Specific Time Management
It’s generally agreed upon that time management is a key part of balancing work and the rest of your life. In fact, countless books, articles, and expert testimonies tell us to do just that: switch off from work when you can and engage actively with your leisure time.
To do that, you might have the discipline to deliberately take yourself away from your laptop and smart devices while you’re on vacation – putting them in the hotel room safe, for instance, keeps them out of sight and off your mind.
However, you may find that this is harder for you if you’re a workaholic. To balance the world around you a little more evenly, you might consider selecting a day here and there on your vacation to dedicate to work. You could do this by selecting towns with a library you could sit in or hotels with a business center guests can use.
Using Route Perfect’s different accommodation management features, you can take the time to find these locations and manage them deliberately. Then, whenever you find that your mind starts to wander toward work, you can quickly make a note of your thought and then push it away. This is a much easier task than swearing off work completely because you know that you’ll be interacting with that note you made: the thought is honored; it’s just honored at a later date.
Internet Access Management
In our modern world, you may be in a situation where you’re technically able to do work at any time and in any location: we’ve all got smart devices and internet access virtually 24/7.
This isn’t good for maintaining a work-life balance, and it can be a good idea to render all that technology a bit moot for a while. This is easier said than done, of course, but a great way to do this could be to take some time in nature.
Time spent in nature is already something that brings a lot of calmness and mental health to many people, and using it as a tool to separate yourself from a wireless internet connection is a really smart way to manage yourself!
Route Perfect allows you to alter the routes that you take as you’re navigating across countries. To reduce the amount of internet access that you might have, you could choose to alter the route that you take to intersect more closely with nature. This could include something fairly simple, like driving to a known parking lot near a natural site, sending out a message to your colleagues and friends that you’ll be unreachable for a little while, and then heading out to set up a camp in the woods.
While the totally off-grid lifestyle isn’t ideal for everyone, it can be a wonderfully efficient way to ensure that you’re just not tempted to look at your phone. If your phone can’t get a signal, then you won’t receive messages from work. This will allow you to be more present and engage with the world around you – what’s not to love?
Momentum
By planning ahead of time, you allow yourself to build up a sense of momentum on your journey. The adage “all good things must come to an end” rings true here since you know that your time in a certain location is limited, and you’ll be moving along soon.
For some people, this sense of movement and momentum is the perfect pressure to encourage them to interact more with the world around them. This may mean different things to different people, but for most, it’s simply a way of encouraging themselves to take a look around and mindfully live their vacation lives.
Taking the time to plan your trip with an AI tool like Route Perfect can be a really helpful way to help you separate work and play and spend a little time reconnecting with yourself and your loved ones.
