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What are some life hacks that you practice?
I’m not sure I have many of those clever life hacks you see online.
You know the ones.
“You’ve been folding towels WRONG your entire life!”
Have I?
They’re in the cupboard. They’re dry. I consider that a success. 🤣
But over the years, I’ve collected a few of my own.
One of the biggest is:
Do things when you have the energy, not simply because the clock says you should.
Life doesn’t always fit neatly into schedules. Some days I can accomplish a lot. Other days, the important things get done and the rest can wait.
I’ve learned that the washing won’t file a formal complaint. 😂
Another one is to prepare what you can the night before.
If we have an early morning, anything that can be found, packed or organised beforehand means one less thing for my half-asleep brain to deal with.
Especially before coffee.
Nothing important should depend on pre-coffee Maggie.
I also believe in keeping things where you actually use them.
There’s no point creating a beautifully organised system if you have to walk across the house seventeen times to use it.
Practical beats perfect.
And perhaps one of my most important life hacks:
Write things down.
Appointments, ideas, song lyrics, things I need to remember…
Because telling myself “I’ll remember that” is apparently one of the greatest lies I tell myself. 🤣
Then there are the emotional life hacks I’ve learned.
If my head gets too noisy, I put on music.
If I need to centre myself, I meditate.
If something is sitting heavily inside me, I write.
And if none of those work…
Coffee.
I’m beginning to realise coffee appears in quite a lot of my solutions.
Living with animals has taught me a few specialised hacks too.
If you don’t want Bella to steal something…
Don’t leave it where Bella can reach it.
If it’s a shoe, this advice becomes considerably more urgent.
And if it’s a black shoe, you now have to consider Oscar as well.
Apparently footwear security is an actual department in this household.
But maybe my biggest life hack isn’t really a hack at all.
Make life work for the life you actually have—not the life somebody else thinks you should have.
Adapt.
Simplify where you can.
Ask for help when you need it.
Rest when your body tells you to.
Laugh when everything goes slightly sideways.
And don’t waste energy trying to make everyday life look perfect.
Sometimes good enough really is good enough.
https://ditto.fm/silenced-but-not-broken
My new song “Silenced but not broken” Lyric video.
With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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