Travel is a fact of life, whether for business or for pleasure. For many business people, frequent travel is a frequent event. Over time, seasoned travelers have been able to come up with ways to simplify being on road. However, in today?s changing economy, many people are experiencing job and career changes. As a result, friendly skies are full of those who are new to business travel and finding themselves overwhelmed and exhausted. Here are ten steps to make your travel simpler and less time-consuming.

1. Make a list of all products you use throughout course of an average day. (shower gel, deodorant, shampoo, moisturizers, hair spray, toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, etc).

2. Take your list with you to store and purchase one of every product on your list in a trial size. Also buy a small inexpensive hair dryer, a mini shower scrubbie and an extra small comb or brush. At same time, purchase a travel case large enough to accommodate all these new items.

3. After shopping, put a handful of cottonballs, swabs and safety pins into three separate baggies. Pack your new travel toiletries and your baggies into your travel case and keep it packed this way and stored in your luggage at all times.

Disorganization in workplace can be caused by many factors, such as frequent interruptions and hidden time-stealers. By identifying and combating these chaos-causers, you and your staff can get more accomplished in less time. Here are five tactics to try yourself and recommend to your staff to increase their organization at work.

Avoid Frequent Visitors

Interruptions are one of major causes of chaos in workplace. If you and your staff experience frequent interruptions, which are eroding productivity and causing chaos, recommend that they establish a ?quiet period? which occurs same time each day or week. This period is a time to focus on doing important work, taking no phone calls or visitors. It doesn?t have to be a long time, perhaps only an hour or so, but everyone needs to make it clearly known when they are in midst of their private work time so that others can plan accordingly. Suggest each person create a sign to hang on desk or door that says, ?QUIET WORK PERIOD IN PROGRESS 11:00 TO 12:00? to alert visiting co-workers who may be apt to stop and chat.

Consolidate Communications

A follow-up to establishing quiet period is to limit as much visiting and phone calls between staff as possible. If people are frequently going back and forth to each others? desks and calling each other with questions, there is a lot of walking and talking going on but perhaps not a lot of productive work. Encourage each person on your staff to consolidate trips by keeping a notebook or folder for each other co-worker that they frequently need to communicate with. Label each notebook with a person?s name and every time they have something to ask ell/consult with that person about, they make a note in their notebook. Then once or twice per day, they can make their rounds, visiting each person whose notebook has entries for that day. This system of consolidating communications serves four purposes:

1.It keeps people from running around office all day losing productive time.