Life Hacks, Tips, Tricks

50 Unique Life Hacks You'll Wish You Knew Sooner

1933 words10 min read
Authors

Life is full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities. It's always good to have some useful tips and tricks up your sleeve to help make things easier, more efficient, and enjoyable.

Whether it's finding new ways to save money, making your home more comfortable, or improving your health and wellbeing, these 50 unique life tips will surely help you navigate through life's ups and downs with ease.

1. The Two-Minute Rule: Get Things Done Now

Life Hacks: - The Two-Minute Rule: If you see something that needs doing and it can be completed within two minutes, do it immediately.


2. Avoid Calvin Klein Obsession in Woods!

Life Hacks: - Never walk into the woods wearing the Calvin Klein Obsession scent. It attracts cheetahs, tigers, and jaguars!


3. Tetris for Trauma: Wipe Bad Memories

Life Hacks: - Playing Tetris soon after a traumatic experience has been proven to help wipe bad memories and prevent flashbacks.


4. The most important things in life

Life Hacks: - The most important things in life aren't things.


5. Reach Your Goals with a Password

Life Hacks: - Set a password as a goal of yours, so you constantly have to be reminded of it.


6. Survive Trapped Underwater in Your Car: Use Headrests to Break Windows

Life Hacks: - Trapped underwater in your car? Use your car's headrest to break the window.


7. Discover the Benefits of Making Mistakes

Life Hacks: - A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.


8. Lighting Fires with Joke Candles

Life Hacks: - While lighting fires during camping, use joke candles (the ones that can't get blown out). The wind won't affect the flame.


9. Smell Your Breath: Life Hack

Life Hacks: - One way to check what your breath smells like to others is to lick your wrist and smell it after 10 seconds


10. Reset Credit Card Machine: Life Hack Tips

Life Hacks: - If an annoying customer is behind you at a checkout line, press all four corners of the credit card machine to reset it.


11. Find What You're Looking for: Scan Right to Left

Life Hacks: - Can't find what you're looking for? Scan the room from RIGHT to LEFT with your eyes. You'll pick up more since your brain isn't used to reading that way.


12. Life Hack: Assume Everything Works Out.

Life Hacks: - If you address every challenge in life under the assumption that everything always works out in the end, it usually does.


13. Beat Sleepiness with Breathwork

Life Hacks: - Feeling sleepy when you shouldn't? Hold your breath as long as you can and then breathe out slowly. It'll increase your heart rate making you feel less drowsy.


14. Unlock Success with Happiness

Life Hacks: - Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful.


15. Alcohol to remove stains from various surfaces

Life Hacks: - Rubbing alcohol will remove pen marks & stains from a wide range of surfaces, not just clothes.


16. Experience Life More: Spend Money Wisely

Life Hacks: - Do not spend money on materialistic things, spend money on experiences. You will enjoy life a lot more!


17. Boost Your Social Presence with Positive Thinking!

Life Hacks: - Like someone's post on a social network to make them automatically associate you with positive thoughts!


18. Embarrassed? Buy a Birthday Card!

Life Hacks: - If you're buying something that you are embarrassed with, simply buy a birthday card with it.


19. Zoo Animals Come Closer

Life Hacks: - Wear the same colors as the employees do when you go to the zoo. The animals will come right up to instead of backing away.


20. How tea bags save your shoes

Life Hacks: - Shoes or gym bags have bad smell? Put dry tea bags inside them and they will absorb the unpleasant odors.


21. Call Police on 311: A Life Hack

Life Hacks: - Not an emergency? You can still call the police, but on 311 in the US.


22. Boost Pain Tolerance: Curse Your Way Out!

Life Hacks: - Know what causes cursing to reduce pain? Cursing releases Enkephalin which raises your pain tolerance.


23. Break Habits in 21 Days

Life Hacks: - Trying to get rid of a habit? Behavioral scientists say that we need about 21 days to make/break a habit and after that, you won't need it anymore.


24. Verify Phone Numbers

Life Hacks: - Suspect someone's giving you the wrong phone number? Read it back to them incorrectly. If they correct you it's legit.


25. How to get bring clarity to your mental

Life Hacks: - Wish to bring clarity to your mental aspects? Cleaning your home and doing physical exercise help clear up your mind.


26. Start Your Day with Positive Thoughts!

Life Hacks: - Looking forward to having a good day? Start your day by having positive thoughts!


27. Save Money: How to Afford What You Want

Life Hacks: - Money spending tip: If you cannot afford two of it, you can't afford it


28. Why shouldn't ask somebody to tell the truth

Life Hacks: - Never ask someone to tell the truth. A liar will just lie more and more and an honest person will be offended.


29. Sleep Better by Thinking of the Past

Life Hacks: - Shower thoughts: Thinking of the future is usually what keeps people up at night and thinking of the past can actually help you sleep!


30. Start with the best first conversation

Life Hacks: - Want to start with the best first conversation? Ask them what they like to do rather than what they do. It will get them excited and spark conversation.


31. Smile for Better Mood: Try It!

Life Hacks: - Here's why you should smile regardless of what the situation is! It immediately improves your mood. Using these muscles in enough to trigger happy chemicals in the brain


32. Life Hacks: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone!

Life Hacks: - What is the most common life advice? Life begins outside your comfort zone!


33. Stay Silent - Get Them Talking

Life Hacks: - Waiting for somebody to confess something? The best way to do this is by remaining silent. They'll talk simply due to being uncomfortable


34. How to not be lost in life

Life Hacks: - Everyday ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.


35. Unlock Your Mind with Music

Life Hacks: - Ever thought about how powerful music is? It is so influential that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world


36. Be On Time: 10 Minutes Early Makes a Difference

Life Hacks: - Schedule for life: always be ten minutes early to everything! Once it becomes a habit, you'll never be late to anything again


37. Thank You: The Humble Way to Accept a Compliment

Life Hacks: - Someone just complimented you. The humblest way to accept a compliment is to say thank you and not tell the other person that they are wrong


38. Get What You Want: Ask!

Life Hacks: - Ask for it if you want it. Asking is the simplest way to get more than you can think of.


39. Eliminate Negativity for Success

Life Hacks: - Remove negative people from your life. The people you spend time with influence your attitude, thoughts, and success more than you think.


40. Make the Most of Grandparents' Time

Life Hacks: - Make the best of it when your grandparents are alive. Don't blow them off consistently or you'll regret the time not spent with them when they are no more


41. Positive People = Longer Life

Life Hacks: - Surrounding yourself with positive people increases your life expectancy


42. Prepare for Thunderstorms: Bird Warning Signs

Life Hacks: - If you spot birds flying close to the ground, it almost always means a thunderstorm is coming. This is because falling air pressure causes pain in bird's ears and therefore they fly low.


43. Tips to Spot a Stalker: 4 Right Turns

Life Hacks: - Check if someone is following you. Take four right turns and that forms a circle. If they're still behind, they must be following you


44. Catch a Cheater: Send Anonymous Flowers

Life Hacks: - Check on your better half (spouse) by sending him/her flowers anonymously: If they come back home without them, they could be cheating on you.


45. Escape Crocodile Jaws: Thumb Tactics

Life Hacks: - If you're ever stuck under crocodile's jaws: Push your thumbs in its eyeballs and it will let you go instantly


46. Bad Ideas: Don't Justify Them!

Life Hacks: - If you have to hide something from others and you try to justify it to yourself, it's probably a bad idea!


47. How to reciprocate your friends

Life Hacks: - What are best ways to reciprocate your friends? Take notes what they do for you when you're sick. It's probably the same things that comfort them the most when they don't feel well.


48. Smile: The Key to Better Conversations

Life Hacks: - Smile before answering the phone. It will make you sound happier and lead to a better conversation.


49. Live Your Best Life: Overcome Negativity

Life Hacks: - You only live once. Make sure you are not just surrounded by negative people before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem.


50. Make The Right Decision: Sleep On It!

Life Hacks: - Do not stress yourself out! Sleep on it if you are having trouble making an important decision. Every big decision deserves at least 24 hours of consideration


Learn More
* Available on IOS and Android devices