Business Trips Worldwide - Tricks to Swing Time and really Know Places

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Lack of Time to know the Surroundings During Business Trips on Global Projects

Have you notest how often do you have time to leave the hotel room after a very busy day of training, workshopping on managing activities on a global project, travelling abroad...

Sometimes it can really be painfull, to not say sad, being around such beautifull places without getting even a good time to sleep, rest and recover for the next day of work.

I do have some tips for the travelers, based on my experience: please do not try to see as much as possible from the country you are visiting, do not loose sleep hours just by visiting touristic places, locations where everybody goes , etc.

My first tip is to advise you to try to find some neighbor or street view that you like, stop by, have a coffee or a drink on the local cafetteria, try to talk to locals, real "feel" the ambiance of the place.

    Amsterdam nearby some Caffes Downtown  

You'll probably notest that sometimes great and unike things happens just out of the blue, like you hearing a great song played by some street musicians at NY Metropolitan Museum sidewalk on a freezing tuesday afternoon (as I have testimonied months ago), or even watch the sun goes down in an Amsterdam Caffé, listening to the tonging sounds of the beautifull Dutch language all around you...

     North Sea watched from my hotel room window on a kickoff of a global project in Sweden (no time to sail at all.....)

During also some kind of business trips, you can get really very tired, mostly if you are travelling for a way different time zone. My advise in those cases is to try to really enter into the local timezone, and do not go to bed as soon as you hit the hotel room. Get out, go walking, try to take pictures, but do not sleep until it is the right time on the local time zone to do so.

Open your mind and heart to the amazing experience of being surrounded by another culture, language, mindness, air....try to "breathe" the local way to see and feel things, try to understand how it is up (or down) there. Imagine all the history and past behind every street. Try not to judge people based on your standards...remember..."everyone is perfect...God makes no mistakes"

Of couse, if you can and your agenda allows you, schedule a free day or free weekend on the city downtown, go to the popular market at the center of the city (pretty much every city has it, with small variations)...order an expresso, sit and watch people....read the local news, etc....

Ouro Preto City - Minas Gerais State - Brazil

These are some of the tips and moments I share with you my friends. I hope you can have some of these experiences I simply love to have from time to time.

Cheers,


Rodrigo Montagner