Traveling can be stressful if our stuff and our time is not organized.
Travel can spark new ideas and connect us with different cultures.
– Marla Dee
Travel – the excitement, the fun, the adventures, the journey! Travel – the planning, the organizing, the decisions, the overwhelm.
Use the Clear & Simple Way to organize your travel. You’ll be well ahead of the game by applying our systems to your pre-travel time!
SEE IT. MAP IT. DO IT.© to Organize Your Travel Guide
SEE IT – Take a look at where you are now. Answer the questions below for how you typically travel.
- What’s working? You can be specific or general.
- What do you like (if anything) about planning, packing, and traveling?
- Are there things you know you want to change?
- What isn’t working? What don’t you like?
- Is there stuff you know you won’t need and take anyway?
- Breathe deeply and tap into how you feel when you prepare for a trip or vacation? Are you able to relax? Are you really on vacation?
MAP IT – Make a written plan for what you really need and want. We take just what we need and enjoy our trips more when we are clear about this.
- How do you want to feel while planning for and being on vacation?
- Download apps to support your planning and traveling.
- Create a mind map showing all the elements you need and want.
- Will you be traveling for pleasure? For work?
- Be open to scheduling time to plan and learn new ways.
- Is it time for you to purchase new luggage that you love and that supports your trips? If so, add this to your plan of action.
DO IT – Take the steps to make it happen. Look on your calendar and schedule the time at least a week ahead of traveling!
- Just get it done. Start by hauling out all of your travel items; luggage, toiletries, travel kits, packing cubes, travel accessories, etc.
- Go through the S.T.A.C.K.S.© System on the stuff you hauled out (Sort, Toss, Assign, Contain, Keep it up, Simplify). By following S.T.A.C.K.S.© the project will be easier and you will save time, energy, and money. Go to www.clearsimple.com/systems.
- There will be far fewer items than typical organizing projects, but they may also feel more loaded because we agonize about being unprepared.
- Once you complete this project, take time to practice and prepare things. Pack your bags in different ways to find what works best for you. Fill refillable toiletry bottles.
We love teaching the Clear & Simple Way to live free of clutter and get organized at last.