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We Can Do Hard Things

Life Hacks: Strategies to Suffer Less (Best Of)

Sat, 19 Apr 2025

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We can do hard things, and yet, sometimes we can try easier. Glennon, Abby, Amanda – and the Pod Squad! — share the strategies they’ve used to suffer less – giving us simple Life Hacks for relationships, home, tech, travel, and saving time. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 1: What are life hacks and how can they make our lives easier?

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Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Thank you so much for really sticking there with us with all of these hard things we've been discussing over the last month. Today, we are going to talk to you about some life-changing ideas to make your life easier. This is, we can do easy things, life hacks.

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Well, on the surface, they might feel like hard things. Oh no, really? Yeah. I mean, cause these are life hacks, but sometimes some of these hacks I think are going to be difficult. Okay. They're hard for me. Well, it's as easy as I get.

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And since it's college. Right. Okay.

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Oh, I got it.

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I was a little late, but I got it. I was like, you didn't work hard in college. Oh, I get it. You were easy in college? I mean, I wasn't hard. I'll tell you that. Can we all talk about what a hack is? Sister, what's your definition of a life hack?

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I think hacks are things that people have discovered that simplify life. or streamline a small or big part of their life that if we all added to our portfolio of skills, we might make some things easier for ourselves.

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That was like the most amazing definition of efficiency.

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Do you have it written down?

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No, I just got it. That was outrageous. So we have some categories here. We've got Overall life hacks, we've got some relationship hacks. We've got some- Tech hacks. Home hacks, tech hacks. Travel hacks. Relationship hacks. Travel hacks.

Chapter 2: What does 'eat the frog' mean in the context of productivity?

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Oh my God, that changes everything.

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It's a game changer for family photos.

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And you always take the selfies when we're out and someone asks for it and I hand it to you because you do it so easily. And that is why. Yes.

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Yes, that is why.

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Great. Friendship hacks. I've got a few. Okay. Number one, when someone comes to your house, you can tell them what time you want them to leave. We always have start times for everything. And then there's no, the ending time is just this ghost. And you just have to like figure out when people want to leave and read the energy and you feel like you might, they might never leave.

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No, I always say to people, Well, to person, to Alex, the one person who comes over. I say to person, would you like to come over from 6 to 8? What's wrong with that? Then the person comes. Then you're not wondering the whole time. You know when your stuff is. Have an ending time.

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Hack within a hack. Have the ending time a half an hour earlier than the time that you really must be done. Oh, for sure. Because then you can seem super gracious when it goes to 8.30.

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Yes, yes, yes. Okay. The five minute check-in. This has been very, very important to me. I don't like to call people for a few reasons, but one, because I don't want to talk for an hour. I just don't want to do the whole thing where you're just trying to figure out what to say and how are you and how's everything. Five minute check-in.

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