This document provides 14 tips to improve productivity, health, and happiness. Some of the tips include breathing slowly to reduce stress and heart rate, standing up from sitting frequently to reduce health risks, focusing on one task for 25 minutes then taking a 5 minute break, having written goals that are reviewed daily, and expressing appreciation for others.

1. Life Hacks: The improved you
14 tips and techniques to increase
your productivity, health, and
happiness

2. Are you aware of your breathe?
+Breathe and heart rate work together
+Slow breathe, slow thoughts
+Slow heart rate (breathe in 7 seconds, hold for 2, release for 6)

3. Complete routine tasks differently
+ Brain creates new pathways by doing something new
+ Example: brush teeth with non-dominant hand, while balancing on one
leg

4. Stand Up
+ More time spent sitting linked to higher risk of death; Risk found to be
independent of physical activity level

5. Productivity
+Focus intently on one task for 25 minutes, then take 5 minute break
+focusboosterapp.com

6. What are my highest value priorities?
+End each day planning for the next day
+Determine your two highest priorities and do them first thing in the
morning

7. RescueTime
+Find out when you are most/least productive
+Learn how much time you spend on any website

8. This is what an empty email inbox looks like.
+Check your email three times throughout the day.
+9:30am, 1:00pm, 4:30pm
*if you are expecting an important email, look only for that one

9. Block out office noise
+ rainymood.com
+ search “white noise” on music players

10. Intermittent Fasting
+Let your body heal itself instead of digesting food
+Eat from 2pm to 8pm, 18 hours of fasting

11. f.lux
+ Automatically monitors screen to outside daylight settings
+ Helps with melatonin release
+ http://stereopsis.com/flux/

12. Speed up your learning
+Listen to audio books or presentations up to 400% speed
+Audio speed changer - App

13. Finance 101
+ You are always trading your life energy for something
+ Financialintegrity.org
+ Mint.com

14. Written Goals
+ Do you have written goals?
+ Do you view them everyday?
+ Do you write them down everyday?

15. Don’t think about a Pink Elephant
+ What are you thinking about?
+ Can you also choose to create the thoughts you want to?

16. Thank you for listening!
+ Tell someone of your appreciation for them today.

17. References
• Rescue Time: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3434/3232721767_a6b2ab3a69.jpg
• F.lux http://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2012/05/19/00/55/sun-49143_640.jpg