How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin

Wouldn't it be great if you could stay calm when you know you'll be stressed? Daniel Levitin talks about prospective hindsight (or pre-mortem) that the that the psychologist Gary Klein had written about.





He talks about thinking ahead and planning for future issues, such as:


1)To prevent losing things -Design a spot for things that move around. Eg have a hook for your keys or a box for your passport.
2)To prevent problems if you lose your documents on  holiday --Take a cell phone picture of your credit cards, your driver's license, your passport then mail it to yourself . If they are lost you can then facilitate replacement

What other things can you think of? If you  could spend 15 minutes now just think how much pain you  can  avoid later?