February 5th, 2009.
Five minutes of sprinting equals half an hour of jogging.
Where, oh where did we first hear this incredible hack?
Does anyone know where this came from? Thank you, thank you, to whoever discovered this elegant little time saver.
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Good Morning SuperForest!
Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit down, and I realized something about myself:
My Consume/Create ratio was way off!
Because I care so much about the election, I’ve found myself spending hours online, reading the tea leaves, looking for any indication of which way the wind was blowing.
It all fun and games until you find yourself hitting refresh on Huffpo for the tenth time at 2 in the morning.
I realized that I have been creating less and simply consuming information, as much as I could get. No good.
I’ve decided to unplug. Get some writing and drawing done. Whoever gets elected will be president, and I’m cool with that.
If you are worried, anxious, nervous, agitated, worked-up, stressed…
Take a step back and see what you’re consuming, then see if you can’t ease the anxiety by making something with your hands.
If your Consume/Create ratio is off, simply adjust it until you feel positive again.
It’s working for me, so far…
Until Tuesday.
Love Jackson
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Afternoon SuperForesters!
The other day I heard a wonderful thing from SuperForester Nicholas.
He said that if I was ever to call, say, a bank, or an airline, or any company that would first route me through an automated menu process, there is only one sensible thing to do:
Press Numero Dos.
Here’s why. You’re an English-speaking caller and you need to talk to a human.
Chances are, there are a lot of English speakers also wanting to speak to a human, so you just end up in a long queue.
Now, if you press “numero dos” (as in the number two,) it will promptly bring you to a Spanish speaking operator. There will probably be no wait.
Chances are this operator speaks English as well as Spanish.
So you say: Hola! yo soy una… question.. para… Uh, hey, do you mind if we speak English? My Spanish is rusty.
And they say: Not at all, sir (madam.) How may I help you?
You just skipped to the front of the line.
You just $aved Money, Honey!
$ave Money Honey is an excellent lifehacking blog. It features incredibly helpful tips like the one above that will save you time, energy, and that sweet sweet moolah.
If life is a video game, then $ave Money, Honey is like pressing up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, a, b, select, start on your Nintendo. You get what we’re saying? Level up, homes. With plenty of kizzzzzash.
$ave Money, Honey is run by the talented and thrifty Allison Caviness, who quite plainly rules the school.
This is funny: advice from April 6th of this year:
Solid. Save Money, Honey!
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