Trip Fit method
How Green, Amber and Red work in the Trip Fit method
The colour is a shorthand for the version of the trip you described. It helps you decide whether to keep that version, adjust it, or redesign it before making the plan harder to change.
Direct answer
Green means the current version appears more workable. Amber means parts need adjustment. Red means the current version likely asks too much or has too little backup. The colour is not a rating of you, a guarantee about how the trip will feel, or medical clearance.
Use the colour as a planning verb
Each zone asks for a different kind of decision
Green: keep
Keep the current shape if the important facts are known. Avoid adding extra demands simply because the result is Green, and keep a workable backup for the part most likely to change.
Amber: adjust
Find the pressure point doing the most work. Reduce, move, verify or make that part optional before you add more commitments around it.
Red: redesign
Do not treat the current version as fixed. Remove or change the heaviest cluster of demands, then reassess the revised trip rather than trying to make every original element survive.
What the colour belongs to
The zone describes this plan, not your worth or willingness to travel
A Trip Fit colour is useful only if it stays attached to the trip version and answers that produced it.
It can change
If transport, accommodation, timing, recovery space or backup options change, the planning result may change too.
It is not a forecast
Green does not promise an easy trip. Amber does not predict a problem. Red does not predict failure. The signal helps organise planning decisions using the information entered.
It is not a medical decision
The colour does not determine whether you are medically fit to travel, whether a symptom is safe, or whether a treatment or medication should change.
Worked example
The same city trip can move between zones when the plan changes
Imagine a two-night trip built around one important evening event.
Current version: Red
Early flight, long transfer, sightseeing, fixed evening event and early return are packed together with little room to change course.
After one redesign: Amber
Sightseeing becomes optional and the return time becomes more flexible, but the arrival transfer is still uncertain and needs checking.
After verification: Green
The transfer is simplified, the event remains the protected purpose, and the rest of the trip stays light enough that no major planning conflict remains in the answers given.
The useful question is not “How do I get Green?”
Ask instead: What version of this trip am I willing to commit to, and what still needs checking before I do?
After you have a result
Move from colour to the actual pressure point
The colour is only the headline. Use the result details to see which part of the trip needs to stay protected, become easier, be verified or remain optional. If you have already completed the Trip Fit Check, the result-interpretation guide is the more useful next page.
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