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Chapter 1: Why is efficiency important in daily life?
Let me tell you about three things that are really important to me, okay? Number one, efficiency. I don't like extra steps. I don't like wasted time. I spend probably an hour every day thinking about how I can make my day as efficient as possible. And I know what you're thinking. Spending an hour a day thinking about how to be more efficient probably is inefficient, right? Wrong, wrong.
Because while I'm thinking about how to make my day more efficient, I'm doing other things that are productive, okay? And that's called optimization, okay? Which leads me to number two, optimization. making every single step in the day count. Every single action is accomplishing two tasks. Do you see what I'm saying? Optimization, getting the most done with the least amount of effort.
Chapter 2: How can optimization improve your day?
Is that even what optimization means? I don't know. I actually have to Google it, to be honest. Optimization is the action of making the best or most effective use of a situation a resource. Okay? Number three, crisis aversion and preparedness. I think we all want to be prepared for a crisis.
Close your eyes and think about a time when maybe you had food poisoning at school and you pooped a little bit. Not enough to like throw your whole pants away, but just a little bit in your underwear. How nice would it be to have a pair of underwear in your backpack at all times ready just in case you shit yourself in math class?
Chapter 3: What are some essential crisis preparedness tips?
It'd be really nice because moments that are traumatic like shitting yourself in math class become less traumatic when you're prepared. What about when you're going on a road trip and you realize, oh, fuck. I forgot my phone charger. Oh wait, no problem. I always have an extra phone charger in my car. Do you understand what I'm saying? Being prepared is important to me.
Averting crises as often as possible is important to me. Now, what does this all really say about me? If you were to simplify it, basically that I like life hacks. And I think most people think of life hacks and they cringe because there was this weird phase on the internet for a few years where like 90% of internet content was was about some sort of life hack.
Chapter 4: Why should you embrace life hacks?
And, you know, there are only so many life hacks in life. You know what I'm saying? Like there are only so many. And because this was such a video trend, it became this thing of like, people were just coming up with these ridiculous life hacks that actually didn't work and actually required more steps than the original. Like it wasn't hacking life, it was actually making life more complicated.
And so then the trend ultimately died. And then we all sort of started to hate life hacks. But We really don't hate life hacks. We all have our own life hacks in our day-to-day life. And we might not even realize that we have them, but we do. And I am somebody who absolutely loves hacking my life, okay? I am constantly trying to figure out how to hack my life.
It's almost like a hobby for me, honestly. Because I will say, and I'm not like trying to shit on the people of my life, but... I think my life is more hacked than anyone that I know. I briefly paused this episode to let you know that this episode of Anything Goes is presented by Temptations Cat Treats.
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To be honest, I think I'm a little bit too obsessed with efficiency and optimization and crisis aversion and preparedness. Like, I think it is kind of an unhealthy obsession at times for me. Because I am really hard on myself when things are inefficient, when I am unprepared, like I really beat myself up about it. And that's not healthy.
But I do think it's overall a positive sort of sentiment to like, I don't know, like hack your life. Like I think it's a positive concept. I think I personally take it too far, but I think it's something that everyone can benefit from incorporating into their lives. Like I think most of us could always be more efficient, more optimized, more prepared.
There's a few of us out there who become obsessed with it, but even for us, it's still good. We get a lot of shit done. you know, and we're always prepared and it's great. Anyway, with all of that being said, today I'm going to be sharing some of my personal life hacks. Listen, are these going to work for you? Maybe not. That's not the point.
I'm just trying to inspire you to figure out your own life hacks. The truth is, you know what? I'm actually thinking about this now. I think the problem with the life hack era on the internet, when everybody was posting about different life hacks that you should incorporate into your life, because it'll make you more efficient, you more prepared.
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Chapter 5: What are some of Emma's unique life hacks?
The problem was not only were the hacks for the most part really bad, but they weren't personalized. I really do think only you can hack your life. You know, like don't copy all of my life hacks. Just take inspiration from my life hacks, you know? And as my yoga teacher says to me, this is so weird. Take what you want and leave what you don't.
That's what my yoga teacher says to me before we start class. Do I really know what it means? No, I have no clue what she's even talking about by that. But I listen to her say it and I absorb it. And then I do the downward dog. Anyway, without further ado, I will be sharing with you my life hacks.
Starting with something that everyone in my life thinks is very weird, but I think it's genius and incredibly convenient. I wear a crossbody bag probably like 18 hours a day. I am almost always wearing a crossbody bag around the house doing chores. On a walk, I mean, let me clarify.
Okay, obviously when I go out to like, I don't know, go get my nails done or go to the grocery store or do this or do that, I will bring a bag and that's normal, right? Nobody's batting an eye at that. What's weird about me is that I'm wearing a cross body bag like at my house all day. You know what I'm saying? I'm not just wearing a bag when I go out for the day. No, no, no.
I get home and if I'm wearing like a cute purse that's like not that comfortable, I'm I'll put everything into a crossbody bag and continue to carry my things around throughout the day. Or if I'm wearing a crossbody bag already that's comfortable and convenient, I will just keep the bag on once I get home. Do you see what I'm saying?
When I wake up in the morning, I put on a crossbody bag and I put like my phone in it and, you know, anything else I may need. Like I carry around little toothpicks and mints because I have a nicotine addiction and I'm trying not to vape. So I need to have little things. So I keep those in my bag. I'll keep like hand sanitizer in there. I'll keep chapstick, you know, I'll keep eye drops.
Like I keep things in my little crossbody bag and carry them around all day. Now people think this is very odd because it's unusual to wear a bag around your house. You know, most people put things in their pockets or just go and get the items that they need when they need them. I'm sorry, that's inefficient. Okay. I always have what I need on me at all times.
And most of the time when I'm at home, I'm wearing pajamas, which either don't have pockets or the clothes are too loose to hold all the things that I want to hold. Like if I put my phone in my pajama short pocket, the shorts are falling down. The shorts will be on my ankles because I like loose pajamas. Do you see what I'm saying? It just, it makes sense to me. And it looks weird.
You know, I'm walking around my house with a bag on, with a crossbody bag. But it just makes so much sense to me. And to me, it's a life hack. And I don't know, maybe it's more common than I am aware of, but I have never met anyone else who does it. And I am deeply judged by my loved ones for doing it. I'm actually not deeply judged. I think they just are like, this is so unusual.
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Chapter 6: How to organize medication intake efficiently?
So it's like I was frightened that either the stylist or the tailor would somehow see my vagina and that they would think it was weird because usually you would wear underwear to a fitting. I was panicked. And I don't remember what I did. I either went home. and got a pair of underwear, or I stopped at a store and got underwear on the way. But ever since then, I've had underwear in my car.
And recently, the underwear came in handy again because I went to yoga. And I don't wear underwear to yoga, you freak. I wear my little shorts. with no underwear, okay? And after class, my clothes are so sweaty that they're obviously completely unwearable, so even if I was wearing underwear, it wouldn't matter.
I was going to run errands after the class, and I wanted to look cute, and I was wearing these pants that would be really uncomfortable without underwear, and I realized that I had forgotten underwear when I was driving there and I was like, oh my God, but I have a pair on the car, threw them in my little yoga bag, brought them in after the shower at yoga, put on my little undies, no problem.
Listen, would I have been fine without underwear in that scenario? Sure, but I was so happy that I had them, okay? I don't know, you might get your period, you know, if you're a woman, okay, and you might be happy you have a pair of underwear, just trust me, okay? Keep a pair of underwear in your car.
Next, I think I've talked about this before, but an underrated feature of the Stanley Cup, I cannot express to you how often I use the top of my Stanley Cup as a little tray, okay? I carry around... My toothpicks, my minty toothpicks that I chew on throughout the day, I put like lip balm in there to carry around.
When I'm chewing on a toothpick and then I want to take it out for a second, I'll put it on the top of the Stanley cup. Like it's like a little holding place for it there. If I like want to take a little snack up to my bed, like maybe like a little cookie or something, I'll put it in the top of my Stanley cup. Oh my God. You know what I do all the time? To me, it's like a little jewelry box. Okay.
Well, not a box, but like a little jewelry tray. If I'm at yoga, for example, and I forgot to take my big hoops off before the class, I'll just take them off and put them in the top of my Stanley Cup in the little lid. And they'll just sit there safely all class and I can pop them on afterwards. No big deal. I use it as a little tray. I'm not being paid by Stanley. Okay, I'm just saying.
It's incredible. Kind of random, kind of niche, but it's genuinely like a little life hack that I utilize on a daily basis. And it actually is helpful. Like there's probably more examples that I can't even remember of ways that I use the top of the Stanley Cup. It's very efficient. Okay, my next life hack kind of changed my life, okay? So I have to take a pill or a few pills
every morning and every evening with food, okay? Because I have PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, I think, or ovary syndrome. It's a hormonal thing, okay? It's no big deal, but I do take medication for it twice a day. And I've been taking it now for like probably a year or two. And in the beginning, it was so new. And I hadn't ever really taken something twice a day like that before.
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Chapter 7: What are niche tools that solve daily problems?
And it was just, it wasn't just like, Oh no, I'm, you know, not taking my medication that I'm supposed to take. It was like also causing me to have a panic attack. So it was a fucking nightmare. The little customized pill calendar truly, truly has changed the game for me. And there's something kind of satisfying about making it like I make it myself and you know, every month.
And it's this like beautifully made little calendar on a post-it note. I don't know. And I like stick it to my counter and I leave my little pen out and it's always there. And I don't know. I like making the little thing. It like is kind of a fun little activity to make it. It's kind of satisfying. Putting X's in the boxes is sort of satisfying. It's overall a good experience.
It makes taking the pill, the pills seamless and like just easy. Oh my God. I just remembered another life hack that I just remembered because my ears are really itchy. I have really, really horrible seasonal allergies to pollen and dust and all these different things. And cats, I think. I actually do think I have a... allergy to cats. However, I have two.
So what I'm trying to say is I have really, really bad allergies and I'm constantly dealing with like itchy ears, sneezing, like allergy attacks, eyes watering, nose running, like the whole thing. sometimes to a point where it's like debilitating. And the itchy ears, I'm on a medication for that as well, or not a medication, but I take an over-the-counter allergy medicine for that.
But that's not enough, okay? And it's so funny. Recently, somebody gave me a life hack for itchy ears. Now, ask your doctor before you do this, okay? Because I don't know if this is like actually bad or not. Somebody just told me to do it and I did it and it helped. Their doctor told them to do it. But like, listen, this game of telephone to me, I feel irresponsible with it.
You ask your doctor before you do this. But itchy ears want to know what I do. Take a little Q-tip, put a little bit of cortisone cream on it, put it in the ears. Okay, not too deep, but just where it feels comfortable. And I rub the cream in the ear. I don't know what how it works. But it fully makes the ear itch go away. It's incredible.
And I struggle so much with itchy ears, like inside the ears. And I'm constantly having to make sounds such as this. which is absolutely horrible for my loved ones. They hate it. Although my dad does it too. So my dad doesn't hate it because he does it as well. And then when he does it, it doesn't bother me because I do it as well. But for everybody else I know, it's so annoying.
Everyone thinks it's so annoying. Why are you making that sound? Figure it out. Fix it. What's happening? This is insane that you're making that sound, but it's so itchy. It's unbearable. Anyway, so this life hack of putting the cortisone cream in my ear, it's amazing. I have the cortisone cream with aloe, which is even more like, you know, moisturizing and good.
Ask your doctor before you do that. But if your doctor says go, then you're good to go. Listen, it works for me though. I'll tell you. Okay, moving on. Whenever I find that I'm being faced with a reoccurring issue, I try to find some sort of niche object that could be the solution. And I try to think outside the box. Okay, let me give some examples because I feel like that is a bit abstract.
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