Natalia Starostina decided that you can live better, to live better. And check for yourself the tips of lithicarb - the so-called hackers life. Here's what came of it.The month has been a busy month. Every day at eight in the morning I did my morning exercises, staring at the computer monitor. Fitness star with forms of porn star Zuzana (probably somewhere in Sunny Texas, these people are called "one more thing") easily replaced for me and millions of viewers around the world expensive trips to the gym. The ratings of the video blog never dreamed or television talk shows or popular fitness centers. Yesterday I again were bullying feet together with Zuzana, nostalgia on tapes with training from Cindy Crawford.
My husband, who is preparing to upgrade the body to leave, I offered to do the "prison training" and threw a link to the video in Youtube. In the frame bloated from the abundance of muscle man showed exercise, which was invented when I was sitting in an American prison cell area of three by three. On conviction of the Creator, it allows you to quickly and simultaneously lead in the form of arms, legs, back and press that saves time and money (fell, push-UPS, jumped, jumped, clapped his hands, fell, push-UPS...) Husband considered this training course a bad sign, and from the Express-method of pumping muscles refused.
No, I donít have a panic attack on the eve of the beach season. Just in the editorial office for a month I became a follower of lifehacking.
Lifehacking (from the English life - the life and hack - hack) - it's a lifestyle, questioning almost all existing dogmas. It is a struggle with the routine and boring, corporate rules and a waste of time. He Lifehacker - an explosive mixture of advanced it specialist, wise grandma, annoying sales assistant, dashing neighbor across the country, drinking, but of responsible plumbing, financial analyst and longtime host of the program "Do-it handles". What unites them is one big passion is to give advice. They know exactly who to blame, what to do and where to download. Having absorbed the experience of generations of people and computers, laitakari learned to earn. Their website is visited daily by millions of users, and new tips (or, as they are called, "khaki") in seconds multiply not only online, but also go beyond online, getting (demonstrate by example) in titles and storerooms family Baek.
The term "lifehacking in 2004 introduced a journalist Danny O'brien. Before this "advisors" in the Network were many, but with the filing of an Englishman fans to simplify life began to unite. Lifehacking is not just a collection of good tips or tricks, and a significant advantage of some people over others. The main purpose of lithicarb is a success. In computing, in bed or in the garden. Anyone that. So it is absolutely pointless to divide lithicarb into subspecies. Fall into this category and "rabbits" in the bus, and inventors, capable of improvised means to collect surveillance system. They save the drowning cell phones and remember by heart hundreds of phone numbers; choose only the most useful, and not hyped computer programs and, if there are any problems, simply their hack.
Lifehacker mind skeptics who believe their lesson, "a waste of time on that, and so all know." They by this time had learned to care more efficient. And with it money, and nerves.
Checked by myself
Little Ukrainian boy Glory Baranskii knew that if you put a large Soviet Nickel coin on the rails (Crac! "), you get the knife. And free to go in the subway ("OPA! "), fairly sharp movement of his hand close to the light bulb, and turnstiles will not even stir.
Today adult entrepreneur Baranskii - site editor www.lifehacker.ru - the main resource for lifehacking in Runet. "We try to outdo, to overcome entrenched attitudes and dogmas: Moscow and Kiev is not the best city to live; to spend time in the office from morning till night - not the best job; Word - not necessarily the best program that you can use. So we see lifehacking," says Glory.
On their homepage I spellbound listening to the magician David blaine, who tells how in a few months he painstakingly learned to hold his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds! Then open the next link in a new window, and another one, and another... I think to score in the phone, to remember the pin code of the new credit card Raiffeisen Bank ELLE. Lifehacker advised to come up with this name, in tune with the Bank's name, and just write in the book mobile. "Zina", "Ralph Lauren", "Raphael in the Bank" or simply "Paradise"?
Two years ago, about 80 % of the information on the website were translations from Western sources (including www.lifehacker.com the number of hits is equal to the views of the website of the newspaper The New York Times, about 1, 5 million people per day). Baranskii quickly realized that the option of "Barbecuing around the house, or all together to ride on the roller-Kaczmarek" as advice on "How fun to spend a weekend with the family" Russian and Ukrainian readers not suitable. I had to come up with something different. Now lifehacker.ru the number of transfers is only 20 %. Everything else is personal observation and research of the authors of the site.
"Once I was discharged mobile phone, however I have had to call Jim. I was surprised to find that I can't remember her number. After this event on the website published an article about how to remember numbers and large blocks of information," says Slava. Following his advice, they make a memory training. The bottom line is that you need to submit any image that looks similar to a particular figure, or to create an Association with some important date. And then form images from the story, which will give the desired number. So, in my head there... hmm... rag lapaglia doll from the movie "Nine", which I look on the day of departure at the airport (8 January). Next up is the icon of Andrei Rublev's "Trinity", another rag man "nine" and the broad back of a hockey player Pavel Bure, which flaunts his favorite room - 10. (Total: 981-39-10) When I tried a week to remember all this stuff, I thought I was losing my mind, but nevertheless the phone number of the advertising Department ELLE itself surfaced in my memory. It worked! I'll try something else.
On the advice of Fame I sleep in multiples of 1, 5 hours(3; 4, 5; 6; 7, 5 or 9 hours), but not a classic eight - otherwise there is a chance to Wake up broken. The method of Leonardo da Vinci to sleep 15 minutes every four hours, I did not dare. In the evening go for a jog with your mobile phone, where I installed the program Endomondo. She expects my path and physical abilities. And finds runners with similar data and arranges the virtual race.
In addition to our own body, I decided to do the "hack"-education. For example, wanting to teach the Russian language in exchange for Chinese lessons. To do this, I registered on a special website where people from all over the world teach each other their native languages. My teacher was kind Fay from Guangdong, with which we have twice a week chatting on Skype.
As told Baranskii, I expect the exact time of the metro scheme on Yandex. And all-all the time! Plane tickets for family members ordered Tuesday is the best day to buy. And as casually advised mother that if you ask at the Desk one aisle seat and the other at the window, then there is a good chance to fly together on three seats. And so it happened!
Solid savings
Having regular salary, sit behind the calculations and prepare all four of the envelope. So teach in Australia. Businessman living on the Green continent, Max Krainov (www.kraynov.com is among the most popular sites of local entrepreneurs quickly realized that even a huge pile of money (quite real) can very quickly be melted, if time was difficult not to realize and not to learn how to count the family budget. 've learned. And now successfully teaches others. In the Internet, he was known as the most advanced lithakia financial Affairs.
For example, street vendors, always planning the budget for weeks, he created a method "four envelopes". "It is very important to determine how much money you can spend. First, I recommend to defer a portion of salary (5-10 %), as they say, a "rainy day" or "reserve Fund" (not in an envelope, and in a box or in a Bank. - CA. ELLE), - detail Maxim. - It is especially useful when a person loses a job or unforeseen expenses. Of the remaining money should be subtracted fixed costs: rent, payments on loans and gifts on birthdays (this money immediately, so that the envelope also do not need. - CA. ELLE). By the way, gifts are often the reason that people by the end of month do not have enough money. The remaining amount is divided into four envelope. One week - one envelope, it is possible to borrow money on food, entertainment, etc. This is a very well disciplined". In recognition of the Maxim, it is not just the letters came with gratitude for what he has kept the family. "Although domestic psychologists I book wasn't going to," laugh off he.
There are quite unconventional tips. For example, in order not to make impulse purchases on the Internet, protect yourself and simply freeze a Bank account. In a literal sense. Put the credit card in the tank with water and place in the freezer. In the case of acute desire to buy something you will need some time to unfreeze the card, and means that we will have a great opportunity to think about purchasing or even to change your mind. Or another very simple rule. Never never go to the grocery store hungry (or slightly drunken existence on the weekends). Will spend more. Better to go hungry and with a list (this saves up to 30 % of the funds). And remember: items purchased in large quantities, are spent in large quantities. A huge package of paper towels will sink into oblivion in a few days, because your head is always in the future will exist a large number of towels in reserve.
Or other rule - " $ 100". If your spontaneous purchase is worth more than this amount, then each additional $ 100, you need to wait 1 day. For example, if you wanted a brand new phone for $ 400, wait 4 days. Maybe your plans will change.
To spend less, you need to know the value of things, decided Krainov. So the optimal value of watches in his opinion (if it is not present), should be no more than 2 % of salary. For women this applies to bags and hats. Then the purchase will fit your social position. The mortgage must not exceed your household income, multiplied by two. A TV and fridge not need to be changed more often than every eight years. And on sale, you can buy not only clothes. Even crockery falls under the girls - spring themes in September, and autumn in March. "New models of bicycles usually appear in February and March, so in January - February, the older models are sold at a discount to make room for new collections. And computers will be cheaper in August, before the beginning of the school year, and in December," says kraynov.com.
You should not spend big money on a hobby. Easel, tennis racket and the guitar does not necessarily have to be new. As in the future will be the fate of your Hobbies is unknown, it is likely that the acquisition will be collecting dust in the closet. "According to statistics, if the hobby did not stick, tennis racket is used only three times," says Krainov. In Australia this hobby-the rule applies to a hunting rifle.
Life on the calculation
My friend Alice worldly wisdom not to take. Lifehacker from the cradle. ("I don't like this word, like "harakiri", - she winces.) Don Cossack - a storehouse of useful tips. Knows all the shortcuts Windows, non-traditional methods of drawing, flies only by low-cost airlines. This woman is a paradox. Unrestrained wasting and terrible lotochnytsa, are willing to pay for "nice skirt" hundreds of dollars, she returned to the store a new digital photo frame, worrying that she "devours" the precious energy (and not because Alice was worried about the future of the planet).
Knowledge Alice is pleased to share. So, in one of the recent posts on facebook, the girl suddenly announced that henceforth it... a monkey! This conclusion is the mother of two children made on the basis of an article about the research of Harvard business school. It was reported that the entire population of the Earth can be divided into four types - moles, cats, chickens and monkeys. Depending on attitudes monkeys are those that are clearly planning life goals and strives throughout to realize themselves. In the comments one of the friends maliciously (or, better to say, friend-echidna) left a note that "long noted the resemblance role models".
I turned to the wise Alice for help. "I signed on several websites, some "special" in a quiet voice she said. But, as they say, any information you want to filter". In my mind flashed the recent "monkey". "For several years in this field appeared "reliable sources," she whispered. From our conversation was like the secret negotiations of the two spies.
First in the list of "trusted sources" wise Alice was a site called "School of life". "This is what you need! Just can't stand it with delight," he warned her. It was there that she read about moles and monkeys. I passed on the link and in the first minute just confused. His eyes ran! How to recognize machine-"drowned" to do caesarean hamster, cook tofu to "not being deposited on the hips, to adopt a tiger and in the end decide for yourself: Madagascar cockroach monster or pet? And the truth can be described.
Good Fay
But even in fact useful in all senses of lifehacking worth keeping your eyes open and be able to distinguish good advice from outright idiocy. So, at the end of last year, one British newspaper has published a list of the most questionable recommendations. For example, to pay less for heating, lean Lifehacker advised to use the potential of cats and offered to bask from Pets. To save energy, leaving for work, disconnect the doorbell. And instead of coffee you can brew the dried roots of dandelions.
At the end of the month I was confused and literally exhausted. After returning home from a jog, I mistakenly sent a short message: "I solemnly swear by the end of July to kick your ass" is not the Novosibirsk student with whom we compete in running the system Endomondo, and the back Pay from the province Guangan. Without a shadow of a doubt after two days of good Fay sent me this phrase in Chinese. It seems that the only advice that I have missed, is "How to use the advice of lithicarb".
Author:
Starostina, N.
Source:
ELLE
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