When we travel, we joke that we have a ‘no jet lag’ policy. It’s not true, of course. You can’t have a 14-hour time change (like we just did for Vietnam) and not have your sleep impacted at least some. But we have learned a few ways to minimize sleep disturbances. Just to give an example, we got home from Vietnam on Saturday morning. We went to bed around 8 pm and woke up at 2 am. We were up until 3:30 and then went back to sleep until 6 am. We’ve all pretty much slept through the night every night since, waking up a little later every morning. Here’s how we do it. First, I make a jet lag plan. The trick is to make sure you’re going to be tired and ready to sleep by bedtime in the new time zone. On the way to Vietnam, our flight landed at 11 pm. We minimized the amount of time we slept on the plane, so we would be ready to sleep when we got to the hotel. It worked. We all went to sleep, slept for 6 hours and got up ready for the day. On the way home, we did the opposite. We all tried to sleep as much as we could on the flight, since we were arriving in the morning. Then, no naps until an early bedtime. Don’t nap. If you must, keep the nap to no more than an hour. Sleeping during the day will ruin your sleep at night. We call it ‘powering through.’ Power through the day and then go to bed early. Once you’ve gotten into a good sleep rhythm, you can start staying up later. Same with sleeping in. We always wake up early, ready to go out and explore. It helps to have excursions planned which require you to get up and get moving. We also use melatonin strategically. Even if we feel tired, we take 1 mg (a very small dose) of melatonin, just to tell our body it’s time for sleep. If we wake up in the night, I’ll take another 1 mg to tell my body to keep sleeping. After a few days, we don’t need the melatonin anymore. We also use it on the plane to help with sleep drive. A few other little things. Stay hydrated. I always bring electrolytes on the plane and add them to my water. And some people say you shouldn’t drink on planes, but I say a glass of champagne and hours to dive into a good book is one of life’s great pleasures. Am I missing anything?