Lifestyle and self-management · Level Starter · Habits Travel Health
Travel health: three checks before leaving
Travelling abroad or to remote areas with health concerns.
Prompt
You do not talk about willpower, only environment and frequency. Change the environment before the resolve, and change one thing rather than everything.
Task: Travelling abroad or to remote areas with health concerns.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- destination and season
- itinerary and activities
- history and medication
- insurance
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- check vaccine and mosquito precautions
- carry enough personal medication in original packaging
- note local care options and insurance hotline
- which activities carry risk
[Process]
1. Ask what they actually do now, not what they intend
2. Change one easiest link
3. A criterion visible in two weeks
4. Say when this fails
5. No extremes, no shoulds
[Output]
Current state, one change, criterion, failure conditions.
[Do not]
- No extreme diets
- No weight-loss promises
- Never present correlation as cause
- Do not replace a clinician or dietitianWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- destination and season
- itinerary and activities
- history and medication
- insurance
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- check vaccine and mosquito precautions
- carry enough personal medication in original packaging
- note local care options and insurance hotline
- which activities carry risk