If you travel a lot for work, you know that there is always something that needs to be attended to either before you leave or upon your return. You stay busy enough with your professional and personal lives, so you should consider taking a few things off your plate and finding ways to make your life easier.

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Strategize Your Mail Delivery

One thing you do not want to do after returning from a long work trip is hunt down your mail. Consider this scenario: You open your mailbox to find a little peach card from your friendly postal carrier. It informs you that you have mail that you need to pick up as the allotted number of delivery attempts have been met. You may even experience this nuisance on more than one occasion.

You can avoid this unpleasant need to go to the post office during work hours only to wait in line for one or two packages or small pieces of mail by using a different address for your personal mail.

An alternate physical address is where you can receive your mail, including parcels from all the carriers, such as UPS, FedEx, Amazon, USPS, etc. Everything goes to one place for maximum convenience. No one will notice an overflowing mailbox or unattended boxes on your front porch. Everything will be secure and waiting for you upon your return.

Look Beyond Your Work

It is all too easy to settle into something easy and comfortable when you travel. Consider the opportunities, though. You are in a different place, even if you have been there many times before. You are not a local and there is so much to be discovered beyond the confines of your hotel or conference rooms.

The next time you are in a different city for work, move outside of your usual routine. Forego room service or the hotel bar. Instead, venture out into the city to see how the locals live. Take advantage of the amazing opportunities right in front of you to explore and learn about a different part of the world or engage in a new cultural experience.

Watch this video for one work traveler’s perspective on how he approaches traveling for business to experience more in life.

Sign Up For Rewards

You may already do this, but if you do not, it is beyond time to sign up for travel and hotel rewards. The benefits are too good not to. Even if you do not stay at the same hotel chain on every work trip or fly the same airline carrier, you should still do it. Points add up over time, and this is a long-game situation.

Depending on your arrangement at work, as an employee, you often get to keep the rewards you have earned throughout your travels. This is a great way to accrue points towards free hotel rooms and flights for your next personal vacation. Be sure to check with your human resources department regarding their specific policies on this topic.

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Knowing you have everything squared away at home and have found ways to make your work life more fulfilling and productive, you will rest easy, wherever you are.