Assume that you and your significant other (either real or imagined) are thinking of taking a vacation next year.

What can you do to maximize the benefit you'll get from your overall experience?

Use Behavioural Economic strategies for maximizing utility:

Commitment strategies

Calibrate with others' experience Satisficing Limiting available choices Certainty/possibility effect

Altruism

Bandwagon Effect

Loss Aversion

Present Self vs. Future Self