How to make work life hacking

We share with you a guest post authored by Sergey Melikhov, creative director and partner agencies Greensight. Today Sergey tells how to apply life hacking.

Life hacking really work

Most inspiring stories that we read, the authors did indeed successful, productive and healthy. We are encouraged that the results of these stories are making the same people as we are.

This is an important moment. When we read about Richarada Branson, we perceive the story of how Hollywood movies. Some bearded dude somewhere succeeded. Well, yeah, cool, they have such things happen. But not in my Syktyvkar (pretend that about Syktyvkar has not written an inspiring brensiana in two parts).

In all native life hacking. Programmer Andrew and brand manager Kate talk about how they have developed willpower, Dropped 10 kilograms and began to do exercises every day. In life hacking you read stories about himself. That is why they are so attractive. They tell how you achieve success.

But you are unlikely to succeed

The trick lies in the fact that life hacking - it's just a "crutch." A particular solution. Some dude tells how he, in his particular circumstances decided to a certain problem.

Does life hacking simplify life people? Yes. whether a particular life hacking in your case work? Most likely no.

Life hacking - it ritualObserving that we have a certain advantage. The word "ritual" means a set of irrational actions. irrational. Because of this, we are defeated. We're just not used to waste energy and attention on all the pampering. When this self-indulgence is decorated in an article on a popular website, we allow ourselves to invest in a strange ritual of time and resources. But the result is always the same.

Some football goalkeepers trying to speak the ball before their gates strikes penalty. When we let life hacking into their lives, we allow ourselves to communicate with a soccer ball. I am sure that some of the goalkeepers this ritual helps to calm down and concentrate. But as the conversation with the ball can help you lose weight or quit prokrastinirovat?

Is there anything in life hacking anything useful?

Still, yes. Life hacking - is an inspiring example of the ritual - an effective tool. One of the few tools.

It is important to understand that life hacking someone else, you are unlikely to help. It is better to concentrate on building their own.

Recently, I learned to deceive their laziness. My brain has agreed to believe that it is important to me to constantly increase the number of steps passed a week. This belief prompted me to give up the elevator to go to dinner walk, to run 3-4 times a week for 6 kilometers long and even jump on the site in the days when I could not find a sufficient number of steps.

It looks quite ridiculous. Wife laughs at me. Father advised to diversify the load and pull-ups abdominal exercises (For this fitness bracelet does not charge cherished steps). Sounds reasonable. But I understand that once I will depart from the ritual, I immediately abandoned the sport. My life hacking is completely irrational, but it works.

How to apply life hacking

Each of us has a lot of their own rituals. Borrow someone else's life hacking - unnatural practice. Most probably will not work. Better to spend that energy on hunting down their own rituals. Enough to follow three simple rules:

1. Formulate a request. If you do not understand what you want to achieve, it just failed. For example: I want to be fitter and more energetic. It is important to identify the target, but not the way to achieve it. Wrong option in this case would be to focus on the idea to start running every day.
2. Track the actions leading to success. The main thing - turn off the inner critic. Do not be afraid to look ridiculous. Moreover, you definitely have to do strange things.
3. Repeat step 2 until you have created a ritual that can replicate success. This will be your own life hacking.

If you make a collection of life hacking productive person get something like the newspaper "Herald of healthy lifestyles." My grandmother did not miss a single issue and constantly offered me exotic ways to solve my problems. From the treatment of urinary salt before rubbing his head. I usually answer:

No thanks, I'll think of something.