Scott Britton - 63 Life Hacks

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TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR LIFE

SAVE MONEY INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY DISCOVER MORE TIME & MASTER DISTRACTION
SCOTT BRITTON
A CREATION
63 Lifehacks to Supercharge Your Life

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Copyright 2013 Scott Britton

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Contents
Welcome ...........................................................................................1 How this book was created .............................................................2 Save Some Money Hacks .................................................................3 Get Free Stuff and VIP Treatment At Local Spots ..............................4 Get Amazon Prime for 1/5 of the Cost ...............................................5 Save 100s of Dollars a Year With This $5 App....................................5 Discounts On A TON of Services .........................................................7 The Cheapest Super-Low-Carb/4-Hour Body Meal Ever ...................8 Do This Before You Buy Anything Online...........................................8 Stop Paying ATM Fees When Youre Not Near Your Bank .................9
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Roll the Dice With This Move to Get Cheap Concert Tickets ...........10 City Dwellers: Try this For Free Gym Access ....................................10 Master Distraction/ Focus-Improvement Hacks .........................12 Stop Checking Email and Social Media on your Phone...................13 Schedule Daily Resets .......................................................................13 Limit Daily Interruptions in the Office .............................................14 Limit What Did I Have to Do Again? Time .....................................15 Get More Time Back Hacks ...........................................................16 Sidestepping Unnecessary Meetings................................................17 Avoid Wasting Your Time and Energy Answering the Same Question Over and Over Again.........................................................18 Weed Out People Who Are Going to Waste Your Time ...................19 Find Impossible Customer Service Numbers Fast...........................21 Hack Your Email to spend less time in your Inbox ......................22 Do This to Increase the Likelihood That Your Emails Are Actually Read Or To Make Your Boss Think Youre Working
Really Hard ........................................................................................23 Find Out if Someone Opened Your Email ........................................24
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Declutter Your Inbox By Identifying Opportunities to
Unsubscribe From Junk Email...........................................................24 Free Up Space in Your Gmail Inbox (Im Talking to You, PDF Hoarders!) ..........................................................................................25 The Easiest Ways to Ensure You Batch Process Your Emails...........26 Dont Look Like A Jerk For Unsubscribing ........................................28 Gmail: Monitor Your [Work] Inbox From A Distance .......................28 Tools and Ways to Hack the Web ..................................................30 Get Premium LinkedIn Capabilities Without Paying ...................31 A Fresh Browsing Experience on Google Chrome ...........................34 Increase The Likelihood People Will Share Things on Twitter ........35 Stay on Top of Those Domains Youve Always Wanted ...................36 Open Up All Your Favorite Bookmarks or Series of Domains Google Chrome: Get The Weather Every time You Open A in One Click!.......................................................................................37 New Tab .............................................................................................38
The Fastest Way to Email Yourself Notes From An iPhone .............33
Be More Effective in Business.......................................................39 Find Out When Your Friends or Colleagues Are Mentioned The Easiest Way to Send Hand Written CardsAnd Look in the News ........................................................................................40 Incredibly Thoughtful........................................................................41 Find Out When People In Your Network Change Jobs ....................42 Get A Birds Eye View of Your Day Each Morning ............................43 Find Anyones Email Address With These Two Tools .......................43 Eating and Drinking Hacks ............................................................48 Limit Bad Binge Eating ......................................................................49 Stave Off Late-Night Eats ..................................................................49 How to Drink Iced Coffee Slower .....................................................50 Limit Overeating At Restaurants.......................................................51 Make the World Better Hacks .......................................................52 [Amazon Users] Make Money Doing What You Already Do Without Feeling Like A Slimebag ......................................................53 Charity. Automated. ..........................................................................53
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Get more out of your Electronics Hacks ......................................55 [iPhone] Enough with the Double Vibrate........................................56 [iPad] Get 10 Hours of Internet on a Plane......................................56 [Smart Phones] Do This to Make Your Phone Charge Faster ..........57 [Ear Bud] If you have Headphone-Challenged Ears ........................57 Clear Up Space on Your Mac By Deleting Duplicates ......................58 Mac Users: Sleep Better With Free Software ...................................58 Real World, Physical Space Hacks.................................................60 Is it a Pain to Show Your Office Building Card Every Day? ..............61 Read Your Articles in Places where you dont Have Cell Service ....61 Leave Your Wallet At Home and Achieve Pocket Freedom .............62 Hide Your Cash When You Go Out (Previous Hack Follow-up) .......63 Never Forget Your Coat Check Number ...........................................63 Travel Hacks ...................................................................................65 Seamlessly Access All Your Flight Information From Your Phone ..66 The Best Place to Find Credit Cards Optimized For Travel Points ..67 Avoid Fees on Last-Minute Hotel Cancellations ..............................67
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Miscellaneous Hacks .....................................................................69 Suck at Writing but Need to Write Something? ...............................70 Need an Idea for a Logo, But Dont Know Where to Start?.............70 Way More Meat for your Burrito Bowl at Chipotle..........................70 Another Chipotle Hack This One Saves You Time.........................71 Trade in Your Gift Cards for Cash .....................................................72 Stay Motivated to Achieve Your Goals With This Little Trick ...........72 Wake Up Less Throughout The Night By Wearing These ................73 Want more? ....................................................................................74
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Welcome
The word lifehack often makes people go goo-goo gah-gah, but what the heck does it actually mean?
To me, a lifehack is a simply a more efficient way to do or use something that gets us closer to our ideal outcome.
Lifehacks are attractive because they possess the ability to improve of information that hopefully makes your life just a little bit better. our reality. This is why I created this PDF to pass along a little nugget
How this book was created

I cant take credit for all the awesome sauce contained in this book. The ideas and tactics youll find in this book come from many sources everyone from thought leaders I look up to, to college friends who have a similar proclivity for getting the most out of life.
Many of these were actually crowdsourced from an online community the best tips they find to improve their lives as they encounter them. In all instances, I tried to denote Hack Credit to provide proper attribution to the source from which I first encountered the hack. Ok, lets get on with the show! Scott I created called HackingNYC.com, where motivated lifehackers share
Save Some Money Hacks
1. Get Free Stuff and VIP Treatment At Local Spots

attention or take much of an interest in them.
As people in service industries will tell you, most customers dont pay
You can get some amazing benefits by being the exception things like free goods and services, as well as VIP treatment.
Every time I go into a store I plan on frequenting, I make notes in my tive detail about their looks or anything we talked about so that I can phone, recording the name of everyone I interact with and a descripput a name to a face when I return. Next time you go back to that store, look at your notes before you go in so you can call the employees by met. name...and maybe even call back
some banter from the last time you If you do this, it will be easier to tually develop a friendship that
continue to build rapport and evenmight just result in some free stuff!
2. Get Amazon Prime for 1/5 of the Cost

year.
Amazon Prime is amazing. You get free 2-day shipping on thousands of items, and often a discounted rate. The roadblock is that is costs $79 a
But there is a loophole

Amazon has a policy that allows a current member to share their they dont enforce it. Invited members can ship to their own ading people to alternatively share with up to 4 coworkers. ends up being $15.80 per person vs. $79! Hack Credit: Yipit blog prime account with up to four additional household members.While Amazon states that they have to live with the master account holder, dresses. They generally seem relaxed about this restriction, encouragIf youre able to find four other people to share the membership, it
3. Save 100s of Dollars a Year With This $5 App
As a consumer, you represent a ton of lifetime value to service
providers. For services like cable, internet, cell phone, and even gym
memberships, keeping you as a customer can be worth thousands of dollars to a company.
This means leverage that you can use to your advantage and theres an app that can help you.
Ramit Sethi developed an app called Negotiate It. This app can promoney with a simple phone call. vide you with a list of situations and services where you can often save
Dont know what to say? The app has you covered! It gives you exact company, I ended up getting $15 off my monthly bill. Thats $180 a year! Hack Credit: Ramit Sethi, Founder of I Will Teach You to Be Rich
scripts that you can use. The first time I used this app to call my cable
4. Discounts On A TON of Services

healthy life.
The Freelancers Union offers a ton of corporate discounts on some of the best products and services to run your business, travel, and live a Not a freelancer? Thats okay anyone can join for free and take advantage of the discounts. And the signup is painless.
Within one month of signing up, I got $20 off a month at New York Sports Club.
Annualized, this will save me over $240 a year!
5. The Cheapest Super-LowCarb/4-Hour Body Meal Ever
At Qdoba, you can get a bowl with chicken and beans for $3.57.
This is a steal for people who are doing a lowcarb diet and hate cooking and cleaning.
**Note: Once you ask for salsa, guacamole, etc., it becomes a normal sure to be specific that you just want a bowl with chicken and beans. They have a couple of hot sauces next to the fountain drinks, so you can spice up your chicken and beans for free after youve paid. burrito bowl, and the price rises to $6 or $7. So if you order this, make
6. Do This Before You Buy Anything Online

save a few bucks.
Every time you make a purchase on a retail website (other than AmaSimply Google the name of the retailer or site + coupon code and theres a decent chance you might be able to find a coupon code to
zon), you should use Google to see if theres a coupon code available.
There are specific sites like retailmenot.com that offer this, but I generally find best results when I simply Google the bucket term as described above.
7. Stop Paying ATM Fees When Youre Not Near Your Bank
sight?
Ever end up needing cash, but the ATM for your bank is nowhere in
I have excellent news

You dont need to incur those $3 fees (more like $6 if your bank also count with one of the many banks that offer full reimbursement of fees at any ATM. charges you a fee on their end). Instead, you can open a checking ac-
My personal bank of choice for this is Charles Schwab: they reimburse you for all ATM fees for up to 10 withdrawals a month. No more ATM guilt!
8. Roll the Dice With This Move to Get Cheap Concert Tickets
If you want to go to a concert or game but dont feel like dropping a minutes after the show has started. ton of dough, one thing you can do is buy tickets from a scalper a few They need to get rid of them and are willing to sell them much cheaper, just to get something for their investment.
Besides, if were talking about concerts, the only thing youre missing is the opening act.
One caveat is that there are a lot of fake tickets. If youre with a friend, have them take one ticket and try using it to get through the gate before you give anyone your money. This way, you know whether the tickets are real or not. Hack Credit: Kenny Herman
9. City Dwellers: Try this For Free Gym Access

with weights which way to the beach?!
For a long time, I was a broke startup guy. This required me to get creative in order to get the things I wanted in my life, like access to a gym
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One thing you can do is barter with a friend that lives in an apartment building with a free gym. Cut a deal or trade something with them to get an access key. Amortized over a year, this can save you around $1000 in cities like NYC. Make sure you get your name on doorman list, too.
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Master Distraction/Focus Improvement Hacks
The best way to avoid getting sucked into the digital vortex of distraction present on smart phones is to set up an environment that supports your focus and productivity (if thats what you want). You can:
10. Stop Checking Email and Social Media on your Phone
Remove all social media and email applications from your phone Simply remove them from the home screen, making it less tempting to check them Turn off all notifications and badges
Live in the moment!
I often find myself going down a rabbit hole where I spend a bunch of time doing something other than what I wanted to be doing. A great portant project. example of this would be checking email instead of working on an im-
11. Schedule Daily Resets
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A simple thing you can do to ameliorate these instances is schedule a reminder(s) during the day to ask yourself this important question:
Am I doing what I know is most important right now? Am I being the person I want to be right now?
A message asking me the question above supersedes all the windows on my computer at certain times of the day to force a reset. If Ive deviated from my intended path, this forces me to reset and shift my focus back to what is important. I use a program called Koingo Alarm Clock Pro to employ this strategy.
Every time were interrupted, we have to refocus, which costs us time. In fact, studies show that it can take someone anywhere from 5-20 minutes to reach the same level of focus after theyve been interrupted. The cost of interruption is high!
12. Limit Daily Interruptions in the Office
One thing you can do to limit interruptions is to wear headphones. It doesnt matter if you put music on or not, just make sure the headhave them on. phones are visible. People are just less likely interrupt you when you
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After we leave our desks, sometimes it can take us a few minutes to refocus and get back to what we were working on. A simple thing you can do to cut down this re-acclimation period is to write down exactly what you need to do and/or where you were in know exactly where to begin and can dive right in. your work before getting up to leave. This way, when you return, you
13. Limit What Did I Have to Do Again?Time
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Get More Time Back Hacks
If youre doing well in life (which I know you are!), a lot of people are going to start asking for your time.
14. Sidestepping Unnecessary Meetings

Lets grab coffee. Lets get beers. Lets go watch dancing bears in the park and talk shop.
Taking a meeting with every person that asks for your time can really the things you really want to.
start to add up to a lot of time and can prevent you from achieving all
Instead of taking all these meetings, tell people that youre heads down on a project (which hopefully you are) that demands your full attention.
Given your desire to honor that commitment, the best you can do to pose a phone call as an alternative. help them out is answer any questions over email. You could also pro-
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Regardless of whether youve done the step above, youll start to noin life or in business.
15. Avoid Wasting Your Time and Energy Answering the Same Question Over and Over Again
tice that you end up getting the same questions over and over again An efficient way to handle this is to create a written F.A.Q. that you can send or direct people to. In my life, this has ranged from PDFs (like what are your favorite lifehacks?) to blog posts.
Instead of typing out the answer each time, I just tell people to look at the asset Ive created.
I request that they ask any questions in the blog post comments, so if answer without needing assistance. Ive found this really scales well. someone else has the same question or rebuttal, they can arrive at the To give another example, lots of people reach out to me and ask how they should approach getting a job in business development (BD). In the beginning, Id constantly retell the same story and give the same or agree to grab a coffee with someone, Id tell them to read them advice. Finally, to avoid doing this, I wrote three blog posts about How I Got Into BD, documenting the entire thing. Before Id jump on a call
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first, and come back if they still had questions 9 out of 10 people Id tell this to never even got back to me (more on this below). sonal F.A.Q. approach. A canned response email is another good example of taking the per-
If youre going to commit your time to other people, you need to make sure you do it with people who take your time and energy seriously. I cant tell you how many people Ive seen get an hour of great advice and then not listen to a word of it. This wastes everyones time.
16. Weed Out People Who Are Going to Waste Your Time
One thing you can do to make sure that youre not dealing with a time-taker is ask them to complete a small task before agreeing to give them your time.
This creates a little barrier that filters out time-takers. Heres a practical example. If someone is asking to meet with you for career advice, you could say something like this.
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Id be happy to chat about breaking into startup business developthese questions for me:
ment. But before we commit to meeting, would you mind answering
Why do you want to break into startup business development? What have you done today to make this aspiration a reality? What is the biggest challenge you are facing today, and why do you think this has been difficult for you?
By asking people to do some work, youll usually end up weeding out additional context, youll have more direct, useful conversations. Hack Credit: Sebastian Marshall land a job in startup business development called Break Into Biz Dev. You can access it here.
the people who arent really serious about your time. Also, due to the
**Shameless personal billboard: I created a free course on how to
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GetHuman is a searchable directory of phone numbers that connect through long-winded audio prompts and voice-recognition systems.
17. Find Impossible Customer Service Numbers Fast
you to actual humans at large companies. No more wasting time going
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Hack Your Email to Spend Less Time in your Inbox
There are certain times when people are more likely to read your let alone respond promptly.
18. Do This to Increase the Likelihood That Your Emails Are Actually Read Or To Make Your Boss Think Youre Working Really Hard
emails than others. For example, sending an email on Christmas Eve or Friday at 4 pm decreases the likelihood that someone will read it,
If youve realized this dynamic, dont sit in your office, twiddling your thumbs instead of sending an email.
You can actually make valuable use of that time by composing and scheduling the emails to be sent in the future using an awesome tool called Boomerang.
For example: if you have an hour left in the office on Friday, but you to be sent out on Tuesday at 8 am. Pretty sweet! know the ideal response rate from a client or friend would be on Tuesday at 8 am, you can compose the message right then and schedule it
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There are two tools out there that Ive used to find out if people have opened my emails. One is called Toutapp and the other is called Yesware.
19. Find Out if Someone Opened Your Email
They put a small tracking pixel in the emails, enabling you to have reporting on whether someone actually opened it.
Its super sneaky and great for sales people!
Junk emails can stack up and destroy your focus and attention very quickly. One way to limit these is to create a filter in your mail client to search your mail and identify all messages that contain the word unsubscribe.
20. Declutter Your Inbox By Identifying Opportunities to Unsubscribe From Junk Email
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If youre using Gmail, you can create a tag for these messages (ex. optional) in order to easily identify mailing lists you dont need, so you can unsubscribe.
Hack Credit: Ari Meisel
If you dont delete emails, youre eventually going to have to pay Google. If you ask me, they have enough money. FindBigGmail is a great tool that finds and labels emails with the up the most space in your inbox and delete them. Hack Credit: Jake Segal
21. Free Up Space in Your Gmail Inbox (Im Talking to You, PDF Hoarders!)
largest attached files in your Gmail inbox. It creates four labels: > 1
MB, > 5 MB, > 10 MB, and top. You can use it to find the emails taking
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Some productivity guru has probably told you that its most efficient
22. The Easiest Ways to Ensure You Batch Process Your Emails
cessing.
toonly check your email a few times a day. Well, for most jobs, this is
true checking your email less frequently means you spend less time
switching from one task to another. This approach is called batch proThe problem is, resisting your inbox can be tough. One great tool that coming in. Im less likely to check my inbox, because I know there are no new messages. (It works across devices!)
can aid in this is BaydinsInbox Pause. It enables you to tell your inbox to pause the processing of emails, which prevents new messages from
If you want even less temptation, I recommend checking out BatchedInbox, which was invented by Mike Rooney, a member of HackingNYC.com.
Basically, instead of getting emails as they are sent, they will be automatically batched and delivered hourly (or at specific hours you you avoid temptation. choose within the Dashboard). Its awesome and really makes sure
Hack Credit: Mike Rooney
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A lot of my friends have newsletters or services that send out really annoying emails. You value a prim, clutter-free inbox, but they may look at who unsubscribes, and you dont want to look like a jerk who doesnt care about their success What to do?
23. Dont Look Like A Jerk For Unsubscribing
One way to overcome this is to create a filter that uses criteria you select to identify the annoying messages from your friends email list.
For example, you could filter all message from sender X, all messages inbox and go directly to the trash so that theyre not distracting you. #winning containing certain words, etc. Then make the filtered message skip the You have a clean inbox, and your friends dont think youre a jerkface.
Although I preach batch processing, I do recognize that many people have jobs where they must be incredibly responsive on email.
24. Gmail: Monitor Your [Work] Inbox From A Distance
An excellent tool that allows you to monitor your Gmail at a periphery bar, making it easy to see whether a new message has come in and who sent it. without being in a browser is called Gmail Notifier. It sits in your tool-
Tools and Ways toHack the Web
A lot of people have the names on their LinkedIn profile as private. For a hurdle because without their name you cant guess their email address. You can get around this by Googling that persons LinkedIn title as it LinkedIn. When you do this, their LinkedIn profile with their name should appear in the results. For example, lets say you originally saw the profile below, and you wanted to know the persons name so you could email them.
25. Get Premium LinkedIn Capabilities Without Paying
recovering business development stalkers like myself, this can be huge
appears on their profile, along with their company name + the word
In Google, by searching for LinkedIn and the persons headline in reveals their full name.
this case, owner, All Out Catering, you can isolate a public profile that
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Voila! One of the Google search results will take you to the persons profile, complete with their name.
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When I want to remember something, I like emailing myself a note because I know that Im going to see it. But opening up your mail app, when youre on the go. hitting compose, and then typing in your email address can be a pain I found a great app called Captio that allows you to save your email rectly to your inbox.
26. The Fastest Way to Email Yourself Notes From An iPhone
address, so that with one click, you can jot a note down and send it di-
The beauty of this app is it skips the step of entering in your email address, because it assumes youre sending a note toyourself.
Also, because it lives outside your inbox, it prevents the digital distraction you might encounter if you tried to do this using your regular mail app. Weve all gone into mail, gotten distracted, and forgotten the note we meant to send ourselves in the first place because we got distracted by happen. You can also create a label for something else. With Captio, that doesnt
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Captio notes in gmail to make it easier to search for and isolate the notes you send to yourself. Hack Credit: Dan Putt, Renaissance Man
mode (command + shift + N).
Google Chrome users should take a look at browsing in incognito
27. A Fresh Browsing Experience on Google Chrome
Incognito mode allows you to browse in a new Chrome window that does not save your cookies.
This means you can stay logged in to separateonline accounts change based on the users cookies. (Google, Twitter, etc.) during a session and avoid things like ad retargeting. This is also great for product people when testing pages that
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The easier you make something that you ask for,the more likely others will do it. ClicktoTweet is a tool that allows you to pre-construct a tweet and provide a link to it. This way, when you ask someone to tweet something the exact tweet you constructed, ready to go! Here is an example: out, that person doesnt have to go through the process of writing the tweet. All they have to do is click a link you created, and they will have
28. Increase The Likelihood People Will Share Things on Twitter
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When unique link is clicked:
Oh and heres this exact click to tweet link you can use now to share this PDF with friends. Try it here right now!
Whether its your name or somewitticismyou came up with, there are probably a few domains youd buy if someone else didnt already beat you to the punch. Domain Monitor from DomainTools is a free way to passively monitor these domains and be alerted via email when they become available.
29. Stay on Top of Those Domains Youve Always Wanted
When I worked in startup business development Id constantly be really annoying.
30. Open Up All Your Favorite Bookmarks or Series of Domains in One Click!
opening the same five web pages in order to demo our product. Sepa-
rately opening the same 5 bookmarks everyday 10 times a day became Then I found out that there is an awesome little trick in Google Chrome that allows you to do this with one click! In order to do this, go to the bookmarks manager in Chrome.
When youre there, click Organize and Add a Folder. Once youre there, you can drag bookmarks into that folder. Move that folder to the top of your bookmarks. Then, when you rightclick on it, you can select Open All Bookmarks. that simple. This opens everything in that folder in your browser in one step. Its
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If you use Google Chrome, opening a new tab and seeing what apps youve downloaded really isnt all that exciting or useful. With an awesome Chrome extension called Currently, opening a new tab renders a beautiful dashboard of the current time and five-day weather forecast wherever you are.
31. Google Chrome: Get The Weather Every time You Open A New Tab
This definitely beats a blank screen.
Be More Effective in Business Hacks
This tool called Newsle is an absolute gem. Basically, it scans all the most popular news sites and lets you know when someone in your network is mentioned in a news article.
32. Find Out When Your Friends or Colleagues Are Mentioned in the News
I love this because it identifies opportunities for me to reach out and support friends and colleagues that Id otherwise miss. You can get alerts on their site or in a daily digest email.
It really stands out when you send a personalized, handwritten card because it demonstrates that you took some extra effort.
33. The Easiest Way to Send Hand Written CardsAnd Look Incredibly Thoughtful
Ive recently started using a service calledSendOutCards, where you can choose and customize a card that youd buy at the store, and theyll mail it for you from your address.
This is 100 times better than going to buy it, writing it out, getting Another comparable service that is also very popular is Gracious Eloise. stamps, and going to mail it - and its cheaper! Definitely give it a try.
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Its incredibly valuable to know when people in your network have find out you have a new ally at a company youre speaking with get the picture.
34. Find Out When People In Your Network Change Jobs
changed jobs. You can use this information to say congrats, recruit,
you
Job Change Alerts from Salesloft syncs with your LinkedIn account. It is insanely valuable.
can tell you when people switch jobs and get promotions. It can even
alert you to your professional contacts birthdays in a daily email. This
Hack Credit: Kyle Porter this dude literally created this!
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Every morning Sunrise.im sends you an email of that days calendar, Facebook friends birthdays, and the weather.
35. Get A Birds Eye View of Your Day Each Morning
Having all this valuable information in one pare for the day, it also makes sure you dont forget anything before you get it started! Hack Credit: Pierre Valade
place doesnt just help you to properly pre-
What if you want to get in contact with are Rapportive and MailTester.
36. Find Anyones Email Address With These Two Tools

someone but dont know their email address? My two favorite tools to find this out Rapportive is a tool that shows you a profile for each contact in Gmail. Depending what
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information theyve made public, you may be able to see a photo, LinkedIn profile, and links to their profiles on other social media.
Heres the trick: if you guess a persons email, and a profile comes up in Rapportive, you know youve guessed correctly.
Many companies use the same patterns, so its not hard to think of guesses. Here are some common patterns to try:
first initial +last name@companyname.com last name@companyname.com first name@companyname.com first name+last name@companyname.com first initial+last initial@companyname.com first initial+last name@companyname.com first initial.lastname@companyname.com first initial@companyname.com
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Incorrect Guess:
Correct Guess:
Of course, not everyone has a profile in Rapportive, so not seeing a do see a profile, you know youve hit on a valid email address.
profile doesnt necessarily mean you havent guessed right. But if you You can also use Rapportive to view someones recent social media
activity by hovering over their handle in order to inject some more personalized content within an email.
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If Rapportive doesnt work, the next thing I try is MailTester.com. This on their mail server.
website can check whether a domain has that particular email address For an invalid email, youll get a result like this:
If youve guessed a valid email, youll get a result like this:
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For servers that arent set up to validate email addresses, youll get a response like this:
There are also other services and tricks that can help; you can read more on this here.
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Eating and Drinking Hacks
There are certain events that we just know are going to have a ton of unhealthy food, making it really easy to over-consume things that arent good for us.
37. Limit Bad Binge Eating
One way to limit this (if you want to) is to preempt such occasions by filling up on good food before you head out to #greasyfoodfest2k12.
your name is Kobayashi. The fullness will prevent you from loading up on the bad stuff, unless
Personal example for reference: Before a Super Bowl party, I had a I preempted this binge with healthy food.
big salad. I still had my share of junk food, but I had a lot less because
If you have trouble with late night eating or drinking, try preempting a craving by brushing your teeth. As humans, we hate doing work and repeating tasks. Ive found that late night craving for food, helping me eat less.
38. Stave Off Late-Night Eats
the desire to avoid brushing my teeth again can actually overpower a
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So if youre starting to feel hungry when you dont want to eat more, try brushing your teeth. This can work for preventing alcohol consumption as well.
Iced coffee is like candy for me. This sucks because its expensive and really good. One quick trick you can do is to bend the straw for 15 of the straw
39. How to Drink Iced Coffee Slower
seconds to de-
crease the size passage so that less fluid can travel through. This will help make that so-sweet iced coffee last a bit longer : ) Hack Credit: Matthew Moore
If youre worried about overeating at a restaurant, one simple trick you can do is ask them to bring a to-go box as soon as they bring out your meal.
40. Limit Overeating At Restaurants
Put half of your meal in the box before you start eating. That way, you can control your portion size.
Another option is to ask them to bring out half to go and the other half when the meal is served. This eliminates potential failure to an even greater degree. Hack Credit: Brian Wansink, Author of Mindless Eating
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Make the World Better Hacks
Do you recommend products on Amazon to friends? Did you know you could be making money from this through Amazons affiliate program? I always thought it felt dirty to useAmazon affiliate links, even when I knew I wasnt influencing a purchasing decision. At the same time, it seemed silly to me to not capitalize on the opportunity to make income by engaging in something Im already doing, checked,ol Jeff is doing okay in the dinero department.
41. [Amazon Users] Make Money Doing What You Already Do Without Feeling Like A Slimebag
like genuinelyrecommendinga product to a friend. After all, last time I
One Solution:Use Amazon affiliate links and donate all the affiliate earnings to charity.
You can accomplish this by designating aseparatechecking/savings account for your amazon affiliate account, and once a month, channel me a clearer conscious while satiating the enterprising spirit in me. the proceeds towards something youre passionate about. This gives
Want to do some good but dont know where to start?
42. Charity. Automated.
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Dollar Per Month picks three charities every month for their audience to vote. The top charity gets 50% of that months collections, the second one gets 30%, and the third gets 20%. card each month.
The minimum donation is $1, and they will automatically charge your If youre currently using a debit card that charges a fee if you dont use it, this is also a great tool for making sure you use the card each month. Set it and forget it to automate some spending charity in the process. Hack Credit: Ari Meisel and help a
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Get More out of your Electronics Hacks
If youre anything like me and find your phone incredibly distracting, the second vibrate (or noise) after an unviewed text message can be brutal. Heres how to make it only notify you once: Go to Settings -> Notifications -> Messages -> Turn repeat alert toNever.Thats it!Three cheers for peaceful pockets.
43. [iPhone] Enough with the Double Vibrate
The battery life of my MacBook Air is about two hours or so. This sucks for long plane rides, where I want to get work done.
44. [iPad] Get 10 Hours of Internet on a Plane
One thing you can do is buy a keyboard attachment for your iPad, to turn it into a laptop.
Reports vary, but Ive been able to get 8-10 hours out of my iPad with light browsing. This serves as an awesome setup to have internet for extended periods of time on planes. Hack Credit: Dan Putt, a gentleman and scholar
This may not be new, but I just learned that you can charge your nonetheless.
45. [Smart Phones] Do This to Make Your Phone Charge Faster
phone far more quickly by flipping it to airplane mode. It still doesnt
charge as quickly as if you shut it off, but its a significant improvement Hack Credit: Patrick Kanaley
For whatever reason, those bud-style earphones dont stay in certain peoples ear shapes (including mine).
46. [Ear Bud] If you have Headphone-Challenged Ears
Instead of bowing your head in shame over your ear and putting them in upside-down. The cord helps hold them up, so they actually stay in. for a waste of $15, try wrapping them
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Because I lose stuff in my folder labyrinth, I often end up having to replicate documents, encroaching on my precious hard drive space. files, so you can delete them from your Mac to free up hard drive ence ; )
47. Clear Up Space on Your Mac By Deleting Duplicates
download something just so I can access it. This creates in a ton of duGemini is an excellent desktop application that identifies duplicate space which means more space for a speedy World of Warcraft experi-
A little-known hindrance to our sleep is the use of common electronics prior to bed.
48. Mac Users: Sleep Better With Free Software
Computer screens, televisions, and phones all emit a blue light, which inhibits your natural production of melatonin, the hormone that makes people tired at night.
This is why you might find it difficult to sleep after using a computer before bed.
moves the blue light from your screen at night (or any designated negative implications it has on your melatonin production.
An awesome desktop application for Macs called F.lux actually re-
time) so that you can use your computer without worrying about the
called Have More Energy, Spend Less Time in Bed. Check it out!
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Real World, Physical Space Hacks
This is one of those little things that dramatically reduced the aggravation in my life. I have a card I need to show every time I walk into my card or losing it not the ideal way to start my work day. office building. I dont carry a wallet, so I was constantly forgetting the
49. Is it a Pain to Show Your Office Building Card Every Day?
I taped the card to the back of my phone case, and now its a million times easier not only to show, but also to remember it!
If you have a card you need to scan, you can slide itbetween your phone case and phone. *Again, I dont carry a wallet most of the time.
If you frequently find yourself on a subway commute or somewhere else where you dont get cell service, you can still be productive and enjoy your favorite articles on your phone.
50. Read Your Articles in Places where you dont Have Cell Service
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simply opening the mobile or iPad app before you enter no service land, so you can read them independent of having service.
Using instapaper, you can sync up all the articles you want to read by
Its annoying and uncomfortable to lug around provisions for a small pilgrimage in your pockets (or purse). Instead, you can turn your phone into a wallet so that you dont have help you do that, and Ive tried a ness, and durability. bunch. My personal favorite is Card
51. Leave Your Wallet At Home and Achieve Pocket Freedom
to carry both. Right now, there are a ton of products on the market to Ninja, due to its simplicity, effectiveIts basically a pouch that uses adhesive to stick to the back of your phone. It can store up to four or five cards, as well as some crunched up cash.
Sometimes, I only want to carry cash. When Im traveling abroad, Ill
52. Hide Your Cash When You Go Out (Previous Hack Follow-up)
even go as far as wanting to hide the money Im carrying when Im out. If you find yourself in a similar position, a clever trick you can use to store and disguise your cash is to use a Chapstick tube as a wallet.
Discounting the girl who sat next to few thieves who are after your Chapstick : ) I definitely got this hack from Big hug to whoever wrote it! me in 7th grade math class, Ive met
somewhere on the interwebs, but cant find the original article link.
Those little coat check vouchers are the worst. Theyre so small and
53. Never Forget Your Coat Check Number
flimsy, which makes them incredibly easy to lose. The number of times
Ive lost my number and had to endure an unnecessarily arduous process to get my coat is easily in the double digits.
A simple thing you can do to prevent this is to immediately snap a picture of your voucher on your camera phone after getting it.
This way, even if you lose it, you have evidence that your coat belongs to you!
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Travel Hacks
Finding youritineraryfor an upcoming trip/flight doesnt need to involve digging through your email or a jumbled carry-on bag.
54. Seamlessly Access All Your Flight Information From Your Phone
Theres an amazing tool called TripIt thats excellent for managing all your travel plans.
Each time you book a flight, you can simply forward the confirmation email to plans@tripit.com, and it automatically pulls the data into an access important information like your confirmation number on the go. It sure beats digging around for a crumpled piece of paper in your bag! easy-to-use dashboard. They have a mobile app, so you can very easily
Travel Hacks
Ive found that credit cards offering cash back often yield a pretty can provide much more value.
55. The Best Place to Find Credit Cards Optimized For Travel Points
crappy return. If you travel, credit cards that provide travel rewards
A blog calledThePointsGuy pretty much has any information you could ever want on the best travel cards, deals, and tactics.
In 2012, I saved over $3,000 on flights with travel points, simply by would have spent anyway. using cards that were optimized for travel when I spent the money I Hack Credit: Anoop Kansupada
Most hotels dont let you cancel your hotel reservation less than 24 your hotel stay date to a day at least two days later. Then, call back a hours before check-in. The key is to call the hotel, and first change few hours later (hopefully getting a different person on the phone) to
56. Avoid Fees on Last-Minute Hotel Cancellations
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cancel the new reservation. That way, you will be outside the 24-hour window and can cancel without any fees. Hack Credit: Alex Pessala
MiscellaneousHacks
One thing you can do is record yourself talking through an idea or concept, and then pay someone on fiverr a few bucks to transcribe it. from scratch, making this practice insanely helpful. Its much easier to mold and refine some basic content than to start
57. Suck at Writing but Need to Write Something?
Pay five different people on fiverr to do a logo for you from scratch. basis to work from.
58. Need an Idea for a Logo, But Dont Know Where to Start?
Youll have five unique ideas from which you can pick and choose as a
Instead of ordering a burrito bowl, order three sides of chicken with bowl.
59. Way More Meat for your Burrito Bowl at Chipotle
some guacamole. Youll end up getting a ton more meat and can put
hot sauce and guacamole on it. It costs the same as a standard burrito
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Perfect for the modern-day carnivore like me, who likes meat more than the filler garnishes!
Sometimes the line at Chipotle during peak hours can be absolutely insane. This was especially the case in New York City.
60. Another Chipotle Hack This One Saves You Time
One thing you can do is order online and skip the entire line when you pick it up.
You can place your order through this portal: https://order.chipotle.com/ When you do this, youll be told exactly when its ready to pick up, and next time.
your order will be saved, making ordering very fast and convenient the
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Not only does this save me time, but it makes everyone be like, who is this dude? when I bypass the whole line to get my meal.
You know those gift cards that your aunt gives you at Christmas that you dont actually want? You can trade them in for cash without her ever knowing by going to cardpool.com
61. Trade in Your Gift Cards for Cash
Affirming and reminding yourself of what your goals are on a regular basis exponentially increases the odds of achieving them. However, constantly remembering to do this (and actually doing it) can be a time-consuming pain.
62. Stay Motivated to Achieve Your Goals With This Little Trick
One quick trick is to change your email password (or the password to another service that you use frequently) to something that reminds you of your goal. Want to be the top sales guy at your company? Change it to topsales you get the picture.
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MiscellaneousHacks
Some people flip out about getting hacked when I mention this practice, but Ive never had an issue. If youre still losing sleep add a bunch of numbers at the end i.e. topsales2k13
One reason we wake up throughout the night is that our breathing gets disrupted. One thing you can do is wear Breathe Right strips. By opening your
63. Wake Up Less Throughout The Night By Wearing These
nasal passages, your sleep is less likely to be disrupted. Also, youll be itive for your overall health! More on that here.
more likely to breathe through your nose the entire time, which is pos-
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