CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE: See travel as an adventure rather than a complication

How easy it is to be negative. We experience a little stress and Chicken Little wreaks havoc in our minds.

I was experiencing quite a bit of stress just prior to a trip I was planning last year. I wanted to go to Arizona to get some relief from a northern Minnesota winter, and as I made arrangements, I began to grow conscious of all that could go wrong—lost tickets and IDs, missed pickups, getting sick, not being able to go to sleep in a hotel. I even began contemplating just staying in Minnesota and suffering the cold and snow.