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Life Hacks: The improved you 14 tips and techniques to increase your productivity, health, and happiness

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Page 1: Life hacks

Life Hacks: The improved you

14 tips and techniques to increase your productivity, health, and

happiness

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Are you aware of your breathe?+Breathe and heart rate work together+Slow breathe, slow thoughts+Slow heart rate (breathe in 7 seconds, hold for 2, release for 6)

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Complete routine tasks differently+ Brain creates new pathways by doing something new+ Example: brush teeth with non-dominant hand, while balancing on one leg

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Stand Up+ More time spent sitting linked to higher risk of death; Risk found to be independent of physical activity level

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Productivity+Focus intently on one task for 25 minutes, then take 5 minute break+focusboosterapp.com

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What are my highest value priorities?+End each day planning for the next day+Determine your two highest priorities and do them first thing in the morning

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RescueTime+Find out when you are most/least productive+Learn how much time you spend on any website

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This is what an empty email inbox looks like.+Check your email three times throughout the day. +9:30am, 1:00pm, 4:30pm*if you are expecting an important email, look only for that one

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Block out office noise+ rainymood.com+ search “white noise” on music players

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Intermittent Fasting+Let your body heal itself instead of digesting food+Eat from 2pm to 8pm, 18 hours of fasting

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f.lux+ Automatically monitors screen to outside daylight settings+ Helps with melatonin release+ http://stereopsis.com/flux/

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Speed up your learning+Listen to audio books or presentations up to 400% speed+Audio speed changer - App

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Finance 101+ You are always trading your life energy for something+ Financialintegrity.org+ Mint.com

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Written Goals+ Do you have written goals?+ Do you view them everyday?+ Do you write them down everyday?

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Don’t think about a Pink Elephant+ What are you thinking about?+ Can you also choose to create the thoughts you want to?

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Thank you for listening! + Tell someone of your appreciation for them today.