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10 Useful Travel Tips

Tip #1: Use Your Credit Card.

Check with your credit card company in regards to their terms and conditions especially as they relate to when you’re traveling and making purchases in another country. Get clear on their policies in regards to transaction fees and fraudulent activity protection. Use your credit card in shopping malls and the upper-scale shops. Keep your receipts just in case. Use cash for smaller purchases. Get a little bit of local currency.

Tip #2: Keep All Your Valuables In Your Custody.

Things like your passport, cash and jewelery should go in your carry on luggage. Don’t check these in with your luggage. Call your airline and find out about their weight allowance policies before you leave.

Tip #3: Dress Comfortably

Dress comfortably because you’re going to be in a lot of uncomfortable situations. Bring a light sweater and maybe a compact raincoat.

Tip #4: Carry A Contact Card

Be sure to create and carry an “In Case of Emergencies” card with you. Something that has an emergency phone number and an address.

Tip #5: Tell A Friend

Give your itinerary and hotel phone number to a trusted friend just in case something happens and they need to contact you.

Tip #6: Get Familiar With Local Customs

Do you shake hands or bow? Do women have to dress a certain way? Does the shops close down at a certain time? Are there particular areas to avoid?

Tip #7: Make Some Copies

Make a couple copies of your passport and other relevant documents. Leave a copy with a friend and take one with you.

Tip #8: Keep Your Eyes Peeled

Don’t leave your luggage unattended in public areas.

Tip #9: Get Your Shots

Make sure that your shots are up to date. Especially if you’re traveling to Asia or Africa. If you’re on any medications get extra before the trip. Keep some in your luggage, some in your carry on and leave some with a friend back home. Get your doctor to write you a letter stating which medications your on just in case.

Tip# 10: Don’t Drink The Water

Drink bottled water. Water in a certain region may be fine for the locals but it might wreak havoc on you destroying your trip.

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Weight Loss Tips – Cultivating Habits For Losing Weight

Here are some tips to help you create healthy habits for weight loss.

Make healthy choices into habits. One of the best weight loss tips is to make small changes to your everyday routine. By making these positive small lifestyle changes into habits, you will continue to do them without even thinking about it after a while.

Do it everyday – whether you are planning to exercise or you want to add healthier food into your diet plan – start by doing it every day. Even if you can only exercise for 10 minutes, just make sure to do it. Don’t worry about a complete overhaul of your diet, just change one meal each day but be consistent every day. Choose to start your day off with a light and healthy breakfast. This will set the tone for your day and inspire awareness of your other weight loss tips as you enjoy a healthy start to your day. Being consistent is such an important part of developing habits. If you do something every day for seven days, you are far more likely to make it part of your routine on the 8th day.

Set up reminders for yourself. It’s tough to remember changes you are trying to make that you read or hear about if you don’t set reminders up for yourself. Post notes in your bathroom, put a reminder note in your wallet, in your lunch bag, on tempting items in your fridge so you can’t use forgetting the tips as an excuse for not losing weight. It’s easier to make a change into a habit if you are constantly thinking of it. Set up reminders to pop up in your computer each day with weight loss tips that you are trying to make into habits. Thinking about your goals will help you make them into habits.

Enlist a weight loss partner. You can find a friend, a spouse, or co-worker who shares a desire to lose weight. If you don’t know anyone who wants to lose weight or want to have some anonymity – consider finding an online weight loss partner in a forum to support you. In addition to the accountability this provides, it’s great to be able to challenge each other, give each other tips and support each other in a positive way during your body changing journey. Share daily changes that you trying to make into habits and encourage your weight dropping partner to do the same. Sharing, discussing, teaching and engaging are all good ways to make your healthy choices into habits.

Associate with people who have the habits you want to have. Choose to spend more time with friends or people you know who have the eating and exercise habits you want to have. Spend time with friends who hike, walk or run if you want to make hiking a habit. If you want to eat more healthy food, spend less time with your friends who eat tons of junk food and spend weekends at the buffet. Emulating the people making choices you want to make will help you to turn their good habits into yours.