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How to do just about anything; life hacks to navigate obstacles of all types, from the trivial to the severe.
How To Organize Time For Writers
Confession time: I like to be in control. It's not an overbearing thing, but my anxiety moves in when I lack options. To maintain control, I crave spreadsheets, numbers, and data. Information leads to choices, and options bring control.
By Justin Cox5 years ago in Lifehack
Calendars and Lists
I feel like I am emerging from a cocoon, but not as a butterfly, more like a moth. Self sheltering, actually hiding, from Covid-19 for the past year because of age and health vulnerabilities, has been emotionally exhausting, particularly in the surrealistic world of the last four years.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Lifehack
I Don't Believe in Spring Cleaning and Here's Why
It’s that time of year again; when the weather warms up and we are finally willing to take on the huge task of purging our environment and re-establishing order in our domain. Spring cleaning can seem daunting, and it should! In all honesty, I’m not sure who decided that this was a thing but I’ve always found the notion of Spring Cleaning quite silly. After all, why should we only focus on our environments once a year? Instead of giving you advice on how to spend an entire week going through your house and organizing it (only for reality to set in and ruin it all within a week), I’m going to provide some long-term, habitual practices you can implement to maintain an orderly environment ALL. YEAR. LONG.
By C. L. Henderson5 years ago in Lifehack
Organize Your Way to Productivity. Top Story - March 2021.
I’m an artist and creative writer—I’m also a student supporting myself financially. I knew getting through school without a job wasn’t an option for me. Getting through six exams in a week is stressful enough without worrying about the finances. An outlet for all that exam stress is being creative by painting or writing but it can be hard to make the time. All that stress can really inhibit my creative flow.
By Kelsey Reich5 years ago in Lifehack
How to Cure Baldness The Ancient Egyptian Way!
On October 18, 1990, Homer J. Simpson conquered the ancient problem of male pattern baldness. I say “ancient” because hair loss appears to have been a problem dating back at least to the time of the ancient Egyptians. Probably longer. But I’ll get to that part later. The Simpsons episode I’m talking about is called Simpson and Delilah and finds our hero, Homer, turning to a miracle hair-growth formula called Dimoxinil. The episode probably rang the bell for a lot of men since, by the age of 50, 85% of men begin to bald (according to the American Hair Loss Association). Homer, however, experienced hair loss long before he turned 21, which means for him the problem is genetic. But that’s far from uncommon knowledge since anyone can look that up on Google, just as I have done.
By Ahmad Jordan5 years ago in Lifehack
How I Landed A Literary Agent in One Week
Way back when I was still working on my masters degree in writing at USC, I took a class called The Business of Writing. On one of the final days of the class an agent came to listen to our elevator pitches and gave us each a bit of feedback. He said that we were all welcome to come meet with him in his office and that he’d be happy to give more feedback, but that in all the years he had been a guest speaker for that particular class, no one had ever taken him up on the offer. That sounded like a challenge to me.
By April Dávila5 years ago in Lifehack
Emergency Prep Kit: Contents
I’m just 1 person who likes to be prepared for emergencies. My parents started me out years ago when I moved into my new home by gifting me a big, blue, plastic bin with some great supplies to have on hand in case of an emergency. When the pandemic hit, I realized how much more I actually needed in my emergency prep kit and ended up filling two additional bins with various supplies until I finally felt I was prepared.
By Kate McDevitt5 years ago in Lifehack
How to Be a Gansta' Gardener
If my dad had his druthers, he’d be hanging from roofs, doing overhead presses with bags of concrete mix, and lugging around hernia-causing pounds of lumber. Unfortunately, at seventy-eight years old, his body doesn’t allow for that anymore; however, it still allows for him to create. He’s an artist, and his art is his garden. He creates little seedlings in his garage with heated lamps and specially made soil. He prunes his trees carefully to give them the best opportunity to bear fruit. The plant needs him, and it thrives under his creativity and guidance.
By Heather Buchta5 years ago in Lifehack
