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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to plan your years travel all at once.

That way you can say yes to including lots of different things in your travel portfolio,

rather than having all your priorities compete against each other for every trip.

If you're trying to plan a vacation with a group of people for a particular time,

say you're planning your Christmas vacation,

you may be dealing with a lot of competing desires.

One kid is dying to go to Disney World.

Another wants to go to New York to see a Broadway show.

Another wants to stay home.

You may want to have a meal you'll remember for the rest of your life.

Your partner wants to go somewhere with a kid's club,

so you can get through a meal without cutting up someone's meat.

It is going to be hard to satisfy all of those wants on any particular trip.

That's why I think it's wise to take a different approach.

Better to plan an entire year's travel all at once.

If you are thinking now about any summer trips, go ahead and think about Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break, and so forth. When you think about all of it, you could include

all of it in your travel portfolio. After all, if you take a couple of trips per year,

you can visit grandparents

and taking a nuclear family trip to a national park.

You could go skiing and go to the beach.

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