Episode 313
From Sensory Overload to Solitude: Organizing the Perfect Recharge During Travel
On this episode of the Traveling Introvert, I share tips for event organization and maintaining routines while traveling. I speak from personal experience of running a large event and highlights the importance of having someone to ensure the event organizer stays hydrated and fed. I talk about being prepared for potential delays and offers advice on having a meeting before an event to run through everything step by step. She recommends booking recharge time or activities in advance to prevent wasted time and provides insight into finding her favorite restaurants in a new city.
Topic: Preparing for an event
- Tips for organizing events and making the event organizer's life easier
- The importance of having someone to make sure the event organizer is properly hydrated and fed throughout the event
- Expecting and planning for potential delays such as people being late or traffic
- Having a meeting before any event and running through everything step by step to ensure everyone knows what they need to do
- Having a designated bag person to remind you of important timing
Topic: Maintaining routines while traveling
- Traveling and being out of routine can cause people to feel out of sorts
- Maintaining certain routines, like going for a walk or getting alone time, even while traveling
- The lack of alone time can cause people to feel cranky and lose their minds
- One should force themselves to take time for solitude and maintain their routines, even when travelling
Topic: Taking recharge time
- After an event, the speaker knew they needed recharge time and booked a hotel to be alone and also a massage
- Recommending booking recharge time or activities in advance instead of wasting time trying to find them last minute
Transcript
Hello, and welcome to the traveling Introvert. Today I'm going to talk about
Speaker:being involved in an event or
Speaker:sort of arranging an event and things that you should think
Speaker:about when doing so to make your life that
Speaker:much easier. So I ran an event recently and I
Speaker:was in charge of all the volunteers and of myself I
Speaker:was going to end See for the evening and things that
Speaker:I learnt is I don't know if anyone in his listening has
Speaker:seen veep but the bad boy is the best.
Speaker:Having someone who will make sure that you eat and drink
Speaker:over the course of an event because you are too busy
Speaker:running around like a headless chicken is a really useful thing
Speaker:to have. I happen to have somebody who would literally
Speaker:come up to me and shove my water bottle in front of me or shove
Speaker:a ginger al in front of me and made me drink.
Speaker:I would have dehydrated if that was not the case.
Speaker:The other thing is people don't read. No matter
Speaker:how much you think that you have given all the information you could
Speaker:possibly give, be it by a video or with screenshots or
Speaker:with a document, people still don't read. So always have
Speaker:a meeting up front and go through everything step by step by step
Speaker:altogether. And run through what everything, everyone has to do.
Speaker:People will be late, stuff happens, cars break down, traffic is
Speaker:a thing and that's okay. Make sure there's enough
Speaker:time for that. I personally am
Speaker:a when I'm running around I'm also a nervous sweater so I
Speaker:always have two. Well I have a backup change of clothes so
Speaker:I was wearing one dress to run around and I had trainers and that was
Speaker:great. And then I knew before I was going to get out on stage and
Speaker:the event was starting that I was going to change into something else so
Speaker:I had to have bag person also remind me that hey, the official
Speaker:event is starting in ecky's amount of time, you should go get change
Speaker:now. And if I hadn't done that I wouldn't have gotten changed.
Speaker:So those are some things I learned. Some other things
Speaker:that I learned was that traveling
Speaker:and being out of your routine and while you're trying
Speaker:to see all the people and do all the things can put you out of
Speaker:sorts. So if your routine is generally to make
Speaker:sure that you go for a walk and get some alone time every day,
Speaker:keep that up in any way, shape or form that you can because it will
Speaker:make a huge difference. I managed to go six days without
Speaker:being alone for more than possibly 2 hours and didn't realize
Speaker:because I was in the thick of it. I was in the middle of everything
Speaker:and doing all the things and didn't realize why I was cranky and losing
Speaker:my mind until one of my friends said so when's the
Speaker:last time you went for a walk? Like, I don't have time to go for
Speaker:a walk. I need to. Yeah.
Speaker:So I ended up forcing myself
Speaker:to go for a walk and have lunch by
Speaker:myself to I didn't realize how important
Speaker:it was because it was something that I just did every day. And I thought
Speaker:it was a nice to have in my life because the weather
Speaker:is nice and the walks are nice, but apparently it is
Speaker:a necessity, not a nice to have.
Speaker:Especially when I'm getting different
Speaker:inputs from everyone and sensory overload.
Speaker:So those are some things I learned.
Speaker:Also in the aftermath of the event,
Speaker:I knew that I was going to need some dime time and some
Speaker:recharge time and I had booked myself a hotel to be all by
Speaker:myself and enjoy nothingness. I also booked
Speaker:a massage and shockingly,
Speaker:trying to book a massage last minute, say two days before,
Speaker:not the best thing to do. So you know when your event is,
Speaker:block out some time and book your recharge time
Speaker:or whatever items and things you might be doing in that time in
Speaker:advance. It makes life so much easier
Speaker:because I did waste a couple of hours just trying to search for a place,
Speaker:which I should have done way in advance.
Speaker:What I did do was knowing where my hotel was going to be,
Speaker:where I was going to be spending my time off. I did research the local
Speaker:area to see what food I could get if there was some of
Speaker:my favorite restaurants nearby that I could order food from. I did not go out
Speaker:and eat the local cuisine. I stayed in my hotel room and
Speaker:got it delivered and it was joyous and wonderful.
Speaker:So those are some random things that I learned from putting on a
Speaker:huge 550 person event in
Speaker:another city. And it was great and it was wonderful and I'll be doing it
Speaker:again. But these are things I've learned and now I'm looking at my calendar,
Speaker:blocking stuff out for future reference. So hope
Speaker:these were useful to you. Thank you for listening. This is Janice@thecareintrovert.com
