Hints on How to Improve Your Life

[ChemEngineer]

Through the years, we are always learning.
All of us are smarter than any of us.
It might take me hours to post little known things I have learned or developed that can help you too! I'll start with these. Please add your own tips.

1. I used to drink a cherry coke for lunch and another for late night snack. Love that poison. I also took calcium carbonate pills as nutritional supplement. AVOID THEM BOTH! I developed very painful kidney stones on both sides, requiring surgery. Now I take calcium gluconate, or CitriCal and drink carbonated beverages only once or twice a month.
Calcium carbonate is limestone. HELLO! Limestone in your ureters will make you sad. (I also ran 6 miles every day for 25 years, and many marathons, which resulted in my developing atrial fibrillation. I thought it was healthy - strong like lion. Not so much. Don't do a marathon or run more than 6 miles a few times a week. It took two cardiac ablations to correct my AFib.)

2. I used to write checks to pay bills in the amount due. Pain in the butt subtracting $69.73 from your balance. I started rounding up long ago, especially my house payment when I had one. I rounded that up to the next highest $100, sometimes more, to pay down my home loan faster. It's like putting money in a savings account.

Rounding every payment up to the next $10, even if you pay online, makes subtracting from your current balance a cinch. When small bills, like water, are under $20, double up on them so the following month, you will have a credit balance and don't even have to pay it!

3. My cell phone directory has ~360 names on it. I contact city officials several times a week to report problems they need to address, so I have a lot of their names and can't remember them all. I file them by Department, then name. Tennis Allen. Pickleball Ted and Val. Coffee Bob. Ralphs Manager John.

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I'll stop at three so as not to overload your heads tonight. Lots goin' on in this crazy world. I hope this has been a welcome reprieve from it. If it has not, let me know and I will have to hunt you down and, well, you know......

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"We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested..." – Martin Seligman, psychologist, in his book Flourish​

"People crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."- Steve Jobs

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman​

Call me unreasonable.

 

[fncceo]

I contact city officials several times a week to report problems they need to address

They must LOVE you.

 

[theHawk]

How about go to church?

 

[ChemEngineer]

2. I used to write checks to pay bills in the amount due. Pain in the butt subtracting $69.73 from your balance. I started rounding up long ago, especially my house payment when I had one. I rounded that up to the next highest $100, sometimes more, to pay down my home loan faster. It's like putting money in a savings account.

Rounding every payment up to the next $10, even if you pay online, makes subtracting from your current balance a cinch. When small bills, like water, are under $20, double up on them so the following month, you will have a credit balance and don't even have to pay it!

"People crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."- Steve Jobs

No gas bill to pay this month. (Some cynic will say, "Oh they're using your money!"
as if that is a clever retort..... as if I would earn interest on $6.38.
Most checking accounts don't earn interest anyway.

 

[Woodznutz]

Take care of your health and every part of your life will improve.

Not easy as the 'experts' have buried the knowledge of health in reams of useless, self-serving or outright deceptive information.

 

[ChemEngineer]

First solve today's cryptoquote, then read why atheists are utterly miserable.