Getting ready for vacation and packing to get there can be a lesson in too much. One of the people I’ve coached with is an international traveler. Every year she has a wonderful trip planned and overpacks…so she says. But every year she packs too much. This is not a dumb woman. In fact, she should be a tour guide to the world. But she adds the negative of too much packing, what to take, in real suitcases instead of a carry on.

The conversations about the packing and clothes tends to ruin her trip. My coaching with her was for her to stop talking about the too much packing. Just pack. “But I should be able to not pack so much”. So don’t pack so much.

It truly is very simple to pack easily and correctly for your trip. How about when you get back from this trip, you mark each piece of clothing you did not wear or need. Make a pile, take a picture of it, and have that be your guide for your next trip. So what is easier, critical unfun packing dialogues or packing what you really will wear? I know, hard behavior to get over.