Life Lessons

Apropos of Nothing

3 Hacks, 2 Laughs, and 3 Tidbits for Thought

Image created by Lorie Kleiner Eckert

I keep a file of ideas for future blogs. I plucked eight notes from it to write this story. I hope the disparate parts work together to make a meaningful hodgepodge.

Here are the hacks:

1. I have no trouble at all remembering to take my pills thanks to those little pill-minder devices. But, when it comes to remembering to do my PT exercises, I’m not always good. So I combined those two activities by creating Exercise Vitamins (aka jellybeans). I put a jellybean in each slot of the pill-minder and can see at a glance if I exercised that day or not. There’s an added bonus here…I get to eat the jellybean!
2. And speaking of reminders, if you have an iPhone, and you add a birthdate to those contacts with whom you are close, your calendar will remind you of their birthday every year for eternity. If you add the year of the person’s birth, the reminder will note the person’s age as well, coming in handy for those “special” birthdays.
3. If you need a little bit of encouragement in life, use the Gift Option when you make a purchase online. Not when you are buying toothpaste or masking tape, but when you’re ordering a fun new wardrobe item or something like that. Amplify that gift-to-self with a sweet…