8-9 hours of sleep a day, sacrificing whatever needs to be sacrificed to achieve them. Your life will change substantially. Better focus, reduced body weight, reduced anxiety, better skin, you name it. Improvement across the board.
1 - Always, and I mean always, leave your keys on the same place everytime you arrive at your house. That also applies to remote controls and any other object that you recurrently needs to use. Life's to short to be wasted trying to find tiny things.<p>2 - have a soldering iron at hand on your toolbox. I lost count how many little fixes I was able to accomplish using one, and I'm definitely no electrical engineer. Our modern lives are full of electronic gadgets that are purposefully designed to break on a short amount of time, and we should not accept that. I made myself led lamps that last forever, cell phones that have 3 times the original battery capacity, fixed earbuds that would otherwise go to the thrash, all because I learned how to use a simple soldering iron.<p>3 - plug your laptop to your 60 inch TV and get yourself a wireless keyboard and mouse kit. Nothing beats working on a gigantic screen, seated confortably on my amazing recliner sofa. And a full on PC is the best media center you can get, I could NEVER settle for a hoku or any other of those "smart tv" thingies. I want my full PC.
Get credit card with excellent travel rewards. Go out to large group meals frequently. Put the whole bill on the card, get everyone else to pay you back. Travel the world for free with all the points you accumulate.
I use a bidet. Not a weird toilet attachment, but an actual tool refined over centuries for the express purpose of washing the human undercarriage after each bowel movement.<p>My enthusiasm on this topic borders on Cosmo Kramer territory.
Buy used rather than new. This applies to cars, furniture, electronics, you name it. Not always practical or optimal but a lot of the time, it is. And when you're buying used, you can haggle.
Instead of packing lunch, i would keep packs of bagels and English muffins and stuff at work. I'd also bring pb&j and almonds to put on them and my coworkers were always jelly of my lunch but they never started doing it.<p>Another one is getting the shower head with a hose and putting a second holder low on the wall so the spray doesn't hit my head/face accidentally. This one was started by my mom bc i have autism and hate showers, and she figured out that if the water doesn't hit my face i can tolerate it longer.
Probably more for the younger readers, but "Stop blaming others" is great advice. Individuals, systems, history etc. - you name it. You can't change the past and you can't control what others do, but most of the time there are things <i>you can do</i> to improve your situation. So do that.
Buy a decent protective case when you buy your new phone, and never remove it.<p>I've never lost a phone yet to accidental damage, while friends without cases break screens and destroy phones every 12 to 18 months.
1. I dilute my dish soap with water, and put it in a spray bottle. Sooo handy.<p>2. Keep a pump bottle of 100% aloe vera gel in the WC. Why would you buy chemical aloe vera TP when this is an option?
When talking to someone, you step up to them and grab their arm.
Then you force them to walk around with you, while you have their arm. Total attention.
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