• give up your attachments to the rules, plans, and other details of life
• make plans you can look forward to
• plans and ideas are fine - it is the attachment to these ideas that cause trouble
• a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving
• steal a few minutes alone in the morning to sit with your private plans, thoughts, feelings
• let go of fixed plans and concepts
• call to tell your family if you are delayed or your plans change
• research your plans thoroughly
• make plans, not resolutions