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Especially during the holiday season, traveling professionals are made more aware of the lack of normalcy with their lifestyles. While everyone else is gathering around a turkey or around a Christmas tree, you’re trying to make your corporate housing feel more like home, thousands of miles away. With such a lifestyle, it’s important to carve out some sense of routine and normalcy among the chaos. Whether it’s a quick business trip or an extended stay at PC Housing, knowing which activities to stick to and which ones to be more flexible about is key to maintaining sanity and health on the road.
Decide which components of your regular routine are non-negotiables. This might include a morning workout, reading before bed, or catching Modern Family on Wednesday nights. These activities help you maintain your sense of self and your regular lifestyle, making it easy to adjust both ways.
With a longer stay, it’s important to also work in some activities that might not be life or death, but go a long way in order to maintain emotional health and positive attitude. This might look like enjoying your standard evening cup of tea, bringing your favorite bubble bath, or even traveling with your own pillow. Small details like these are important in order to make you feel comfortable and at home.
Some of the things we do in our home life are more complicated to implement on the road, so analyze which parts of your normal routine you can be flexible about. If it’s something you truly can’t live without but find you can’t exactly bring on the road with you, try to find a comparable substitute you can enjoy instead. For example, if you always read to your child before bed, as your spouse to set up a Skype or Google Hangout session so you can be involved. And remember, those little details can sometimes be made available to you – just ask your PC Housing representative and we’ll make sure your favorite grocery items, or brand of detergent, or even specific electronics, are ready and waiting for you when you arrive.
What can’t you live without when you’re on the road? Let us know in the comments!