Yoyu: How to avoid burnout for travelers

Yoyu: How to avoid burnout for travelers

on the way I will write articles for Atlas & Boots, submit travel reports for the Asian Bride Magazine and take over one or the other commission to fill up our travel fund. So I will drag a laptop with me throughout the trip.

This is largely okay because we can stock up on films and television programs for quiet nights and we also have a way to stay in touch with family and friends. Of course, this comfort goes hand in hand with the risk of gluing on a screen at home to glue on a screen on the street.

How many of my peers I spend a scenic time in front of a screen, be it a desktop at work, a laptop at home or a smartphone in between - and I would like to avoid that on the go. This fear reminded me of a concept that I had learned from the founder of Gotomedia, Kelly Goto: The concept of Yoyu.

yoyu is of Japanese origin and although there is no equivalent in the English language, it means roughly translated "the space between things". Kelly, who often hurries from one meeting to the next - sometimes on different continents - was once said by her mother that she didn't have enough Yoyu; She didn't leave enough space between the things. It's something that really touched me.

To remind me and other travelers to consider the screen time compared to the real time, I have put together a 5-point plan to keep Yoyu on the go to avoid burnout for travelers.

1. Do not fill out your entire waiting time

One hundred and fifty. This number has been hovers around for a few years since Nokia has found that the average cell phone user has a look at his cell phone 150 times a day. Tech-Guru Tomi Ahonen tried last year to validate this knowledge by releasing a number of not impossible numbers.

Even in our daily life, so many of us leave every free minute to our telephones. We feel the desire to destroy calm, silent moments by placing ourselves in a fog of activity by scrolling, wipe, wiping and tapping, in which everything and therefore nothing really, is very important.

The waiting time is extended on the way and so this wish increases. It is easy to watch one film after another on one long -haul flight and fill our Kindles with books without really enjoying the downtime. I do not say that it has something noble or enriching to stare on an aircraft area for four hours or to watch 80 miles gray asphalt on a bus ride, but to fill at any moment with activity, draw on the room between things.

I will make a conscious effort to place my phone, my laptop and my Kindle in a difficult -to -access place, at least on partial routes for a long time so that I can just enjoy having some time.

2. Batch every housekeeping

In my daily life I have an almost compulsive aversion to idle. If I have 10 minutes, I do a level of the Duolingo language app or delete a few emails or pay an invoice. On the way, this can easily be translated into research for a visa, the search for a flight or scanning reviews via a potential residence.

For some people, researching and planning is part of fun, but Yoyu will weaken it in seizures and beginnings. Instead, plan to plan some time every week - maybe every day if it has to be - to bundle housekeeping.

Yes, it will feel like you are devoting a larger part of your time to these tasks, but it will also make you feel less stressed and enable you to enjoy the gaps in all the other days.

3. Do not plan more than 60 % of your schedule

As many of us plan your days for 100 % capacity. If all trains drive without delay and end all of our meetings on time and look down the gods on us, then we can do A, B, C ... z today. We tend to transfer this to our vacation time, which could be in order for a two-week break to Sharm El-Heikh, but it will be exhausted on a long-term trip.

Instead of booking every stop on the way, leave your schedule as easy as possible. When things go wrong, they do not feel stressed in this way because things fall out of their packed schedule.

4. Treat problems with the source

Most travel experts advocate a relaxed posture in road traffic. So what if your padlock clamped and turned to an angle of 71,0007 degrees and then has to be pressed off every time you have to do it? That is okay, you will say. Relax. And what if your SD card is not quite working for the first two times when you put her in your laptop? It's cool.

And you have a further attack by Delhi Belly? Ride it out.

Laissez-Faire dealing with annoyance may correspond to the philosophy of the traveler, but always deal with the same topic, costs more time in the long run. Get a new lock or an SD card, buy a decent medication or go to the doctor-the treatment of problems in the source will release your time and remove all the "mini-stress" that you can roast.

5. Say no

The idealized image of a traveler is one that hugs every opportunity that is offered to him. Dutch at dawn? Yes! Cocktails before noon? Yes! Cliff jumping at night? Yes! An open attitude is essential for a good time, but that doesn't mean that you should feel guilty if you say no from time to time.

If you prefer to relax by the pool instead of hiking to Nevis Peak on a Sunday morning, do that. And if you stay at home and want to read a book instead of going to a full moon party, this is probably also okay. Don't let colleagues put yourself under pressure to do things because people say that they should do it.

No saying for people at home. I was asked to check a résumé during my stay in Egypt and advise myself on insurance in Iceland, in addition to a whole series of other things that go hand in hand with the family consumption. It is difficult to say no, but never to do it, will rob the Yoyu directly from your trip.

It is important to remember that if you are not one of the very few, very happy full -time travelers, you will return to your life and back to the admin and to screens and scrolling feeds. Travel is the biggest distance between things that you will probably ever get. Don't fill it with the same old shit that you make at home.

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