101 Lifehacking Lists: Cheat Sheets for Loving and Living

By Alisa Miller

Everyone can use some help now and again, be it with work, home, your love life, or feeling better. When you improve all these facets of your life, finding that person to share it with becomes so much easier. This list of lists offers suggestions to get you moving in the right direction. With all this information available, there is definitely a cheat sheet to help you improve your life.

Relationships

Whether you are looking for the love of your life or you’ve already gotten lucky, these lists offer information on dating, fanning the flames of romance, and more.

  1. 18 ways to improve your body language . Set a more positive tone about yourself by improving your body language. This list will tell you how to do it.
  2. 20 Ways to Attack Shyness. If you have a difficult time making the first move, this list is for you. Not only does it offer tips to get you going, it also explains a little about the mechanics of shyness.
  3. 8 Keys to Instant Charisma. Find some solid tips to help you make an equally good impression for that first date or at a job interview.
  4. 20 Dates for Under $20. If you aren’t Donald Trump but want to keep going out with your new love interest, use these ideas for great dates on the cheap. Or, if you want to show your love with customized clothes or undergarments, take advantage of this great Customized Girl Coupon
  5. 30 Creative Date Ideas That Don’t Cost A Lot of Money. Here’s another list to help you save money and still be able to enjoy spending time together.
  6. 50 Ways to be Romantic on the Cheap . From snuggling to having dinner on the roof, you’ll find plenty of creative and fun ideas to spark your romance.
  7. 50 Very Simple Ways to be Romantic . Most of these tips are for those in fully-formed relationships, but if you are just starting out, you can still get some great ideas.
  8. 50 Things She Wishes You Knew. For all you guys out there, this woman offers a peek inside a woman’s head when it comes to romance and relationships.
  9. 10 ways to wow a woman. If you are looking for a great way to make your woman happy, give these ideas a try.
  10. 10 Ways We Hurt Our Romantic Relationships. This list lets you know what to avoid to ensure your relationship grows stronger instead of weaker.

Health and Wellness

Taking care of yourself both mentally and physically will improve your outlook on life and make you more attractive to others. Read about ways to maintain or improve your current health and wellbeing.

  1. 9 Little Known Ways to Sleep So it Counts. Waking up from a full night’s sleep feeling exhausted is no good. Follow these tips to help you get the most from your sleep.
  2. 50 Ideas for a Healthy Lifestyle that take 10 Minutes or Less. These simple steps will help you improve many aspects of your life from exercise to organization.
  3. Six Sleep Tips. Using relaxation and visualization, these suggestions will help get you on your way to a good night’s (or day’s) rest.
  4. 11 Odd but Simple Ways to Improve Your Health. Move beyond simply improving diet and exercise with these interesting suggestions.
  5. 7 Simple Ways to Burst Out of Bed Each Day. These tips on taking a few extra steps to overall health will do more than just help those who struggle to get out of bed each morning. 
  6. Top 15 Diet Hacks. This list offers tips on how to shift your eating habits to a more healthy style.  Don’t forget to read the Comments for more tips.
  7. Top Ten Health & Wellness Gifts: For the Mind, Body, and Spirit. These are gifts worth getting all year round.
  8. 10 Tasty, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Here are some suggestions for what to eat and how to do it when you are short on time in the mornings.
  9. Top 5 Ways to Double Your Energy (Without Caffeine!). Try these ideas to keep your energy from flagging.
  10. Top 10 Health and Wellness Books. If reading gets you motivated, here’s a list on a variety of topics that will all promote better health and wellbeing.

Live Green

Helping the environment will benefit our future generations, can save money, and may even make you feel good. It’s easy to get started with the tips below.

  1. 20 Things You Can Use Twice Before Tossing. Save money, help the environment, and don’t waste time stumbling around trying to find what you need when you follow the advice of this list.
  2. 32 Things you can do to save the earth…and money!. What a better way to save money than by taking these simple steps that also help the Earth.
  3. 24 Uses for Newspaper. Anyone who receives the daily paper knows how quickly they stack up. Follow these suggestions for ways to reuse your newspaper around the house.
  4. 33 Things You Can Recycle. Just about everyone knows you can recycle aluminum cans and paper, but here’s a list of things you might not have known or may have forgotten you can recycle.
  5. 13 Things You Can Make Out of Your Old Blue Jeans. Not only are these tips fun, each has a link to instructions on how to make each creation. Be sure to check out the Comments section for even more ideas.
  6. Green Guides Back to Basics Top 10 Tips. These ten ideas will get you thinking about ways to live your life more greenly. Below the list, read So You Wanna Do More? for even more ideas.
  7. Top 10+ ways to save money and save the environment. Saving money and the environment has never seemed so easy as using these suggestions.
  8. Best Green Blogs. If you enjoy reading blogs and want to learn how to live more greenly, these are a great place to start.
  9. Easy Ways to Live Greener. These ten tips are so easy to do that you may not even realize what a contribution you are making to the Earth.
  10. 100 Ways to Save the Environment. Almost all of the tips on this list are so easy to do and make a huge impact on the environment.

Productivity

Sometimes it seems like no matter how hard you try, you just can’t get it all together. These suggestions offer ways to streamline your life and make the most of your time so you can have more time to enjoy your social life.

  1. 20 Ways To Simplify Your Life in 15 Minutes. Having a clear head gives you focus, and focus leads to productivity. These suggestions will help get your head in the game.
  2. 6 Ways for Maintaining High Energy Levels. Having enough energy to get what needs to be done may be one of the most important aspects of productivity. Read this list for help in keeping your energy.
  3. 10 Productive Things You Can Do While Watching TV. Need a little down time, but still have tons of stuff you should be doing? Check out this list to assuage your guilt.
  4. Top 20 Motivation Hacks. These steps are especially geared toward achieving a goal and are sure to help anyone needing a boost in the right direction.
  5. 7 Practical Ways to Clear Your Head and Regain Focus. One way to guarantee a loss of productivity is by spending time on a task while your head is somewhere else. These tips will help keep you focused and doing your best work.
  6. 5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office. This site suggests you focus on these five areas of your work to increase your productivity.
  7. Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity. These tips work on the premise that productivity comes from happiness and balance in life. Even if you aren’t looking for productivity measures, this list offers some good advice.
  8. 11 Lifehacking Tips for Improving Productivity–and Knowing When That’s Not the Point. Aimed mostly for work productivity, these suggestions are sure to help you change your habits in a more productive way.
  9. Top 10 Email Productivity Boosters. You don’t have to go away on vacation to know what it’s like to be overwhelmed by emails. These tips will help you stay on top of emails in an organized and professional way.
  10. 12 Tools to Recover from Procrastination and Get Things Done. Anyone who has a habit of putting things off until the last minute know the frustration of procrastination. Follow these suggestions to get things going and stay on top of your work.

Time Management

It’s easy to get distracted or fall victim to procrastination. Sometimes it just feels like you spend lots of time but don’t get much accomplished. Improving your time management will help get you back on track.

  1. 5 Steps to Declutter Your Home. Follow these tips to quickly get a jump on cleaning your house and keeping it clean without spending all day doing so.
  2. 7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer. These tips for time management will keep you on track by simply using a timer.
  3. 17 Things you Should Stop Doing. The items in this list take up unnecessary time in your life, so stop doing these things and free up some time.
  4. Pro-Active steps to Prevent Procrastination. Nothing wastes time like wasting time. Learning how to perform what needs to be done before it’s too late will take you far with your time management skills.
  5. 9 Top Secrets of Naturally Born Organizers. Getting organized frees up your time for what you need to accomplish. This advice will point you in the right direction.
  6. Top Time-Management Tricks. While this list was created for realtors, the tips are invaluable for anyone wanting to better manage their time.
  7. 10 tips for time management in a multitasking world. Take this advice to slow down your life and better manage your time in doing so.
  8. 10 Global Time Management Pitfalls and Their Cure. Follow these steps to achieve a better work/life balance through common-sense approaches to life.
  9. Tips & Tricks: Ten Tips to Master Time Management. Some big, some small, these suggestions will help better manage your time at work.
  10. Just a Minute: Dr. Z’s Top 5 Time Management Principles. For a more Zen-like approach to time management, follow these five suggestions.

Save Money

Whether you are living on a limited income or have enough money to live comfortably, it’s a good idea to watch how you spend your money. From grocery shopping to changing the way you think about spending, the lists below will help you find ways to save your money so you have more for taking that special someone out.

  1. How to Save Money on Groceries - Tips Guide. Everyone spends money on groceries and almost everyone wishes they could cut back on the cost. These twenty tips will get you started on saving money.
  2. When Times are Tight: 168 Frugal Tips to Make Your Dollar Stretch. Including tips from around the house, at the grocery store, and entertainment, this list will help you find ways to save your money.
  3. 7 Ways You Can Stop Wasting Food and Help Save the Earth. These simple tips can make a big impact on saving money while reducing the amount of purchased food that goes to waste.
  4. 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home. Whether you own or rent, these tips will help you save money on the high cost of home maintenance.
  5. 35 Sneaky Ways to Improve Your Finances. These suggestions are simple and easy to implement. Follow these and watch your financial situation perk up.
  6. 5 Tips for Getting Out of Debt (and Why). With credit cards so readily available, it’s easy to find yourself in debt. Here are five ways to find yourself in the clear.
  7. Top 10 Everyday Ways to Save Money. Making these easy changes will save your money–and you can see approximately how much you’ll save right here.
  8. 8 Expenses to Cut and How. Cutting small corners can add up to big savings. Read these suggestions for ways to do so.
  9. Six Tips for Eating Out Frugally. So many suggestions for saving money include passing on eating out. This list offers ways to be able to eat out without spending too much.
  10. 21 Strategies for Creating an Emergency Fund, and Why It’s Critical. Emergencies can send your finances tumbling. Follow these tips for creating a cushion so when the unexpected happens, you aren’t caught short.
  11. 20 Tips to Save Money on a Home Office. Setting up a home office can be expensive, but these suggestions will help you do it without breaking the bank.

Exercise

Some people love it and some people hate it, but exercise helps get your body in shape. When you feel better and look better, others notice. No matter to which camp you belong, the following lists will have something to offer to enhance your exercise regime (or help you get one started).

  1. How to Increase Physical Activity When Time is a Problem. These 20 tips will get you moving even when you don’t have a moment to spare.
  2. 5 Exercises for Everyone. You don’t have to buy a membership to a gym to get your exercise, and these tips will show you how.
  3. 18 Ways to Supercharge a Boring Gym Workout. Everyone knows that person who lives for their time in the gym, but not all of us feel that way. Follow these suggestions for waking up your routine in the gym.
  4. 10 Benefits of Running and How to Do It. Running is one of the simplest and least expensive forms of exercise, and this list will get you started.
  5. Top 42 Exercise Hacks. These ideas will motivate you to take the first step or to continue to exercise when your motivation flags.
  6. Abdominal Exercises–Best Ab Exercises–Core Workout. Many experts believe when you strengthen your core, you strengthen your whole body. Try these exercises to do just that (and get flat abs as a bonus).
  7. Ten Cheapest Ways to Exercise. If money is a concern, it shouldn’t stop you from exercising. Follow these tips for easy and inexpensive ways to do it.
  8. Best Fat Burning Exercises for Women. Grouped by regions of the body, these exercises with get you moving and burning that fat away.
  9. Dumbbell Exercises. Click on the links in this list to find out how to work specific muscle groups. Don’t worry if you don’t have dumbbells, anything heavy will substitute nicely.
  10. 10 Ideas to Get You Exercising. If you are feeling stuck but want to get moving, read these suggestions for motivation.

 

Weight Loss

If you need to shed a few pounds to get in shape for the dating world, the following information will help you get started. Remember to always check with your doctor before starting any weight loss program.

  1. Successful Weight Loss: Top 10 Tips On What Works and Why. Don’t just work on shedding those pounds, keep them off. These ideas will help you succeed healthfully.
  2. 50 Weight Loss Tips. Following these suggestions will not only have you losing weight, but improving how you eat, too.
  3. The Limited World of Weight Loss–List of Top 25. While this list focuses on what you shouldn’t do rather than what you should, it is a good reminder.
  4. 15 Facts for Weight Loss Newbies. Getting yourself ready mentally is one of the most difficult parts of losing weight. These facts will get your heart and mind in sync with your body.
  5. 10 Tips for Making Healthier Meals. Eating right is one of the keys to successful weight loss, and these suggestions are a great way to start cooking healthier meals.
  6. 15 Best Diet Tips Ever. If hearing "diet" immediately takes you to some fad, then read this list. No extremes here, these tips offer common sense suggestions for changing the way you eat.
  7. 80 Awesome Weight Loss Tips. With all these great ideas, you are sure to find several that will help you on your journey.
  8. 15 Common Myths about Weight Loss, Nutrition, and Diet. Get to the truth and work your way to a healthier body.
  9. Top Ten Weight Loss Tips. Out of the U.K., this site offers suggestions from people who have lost weight themselves. Click on the links for each contributor to read about their weight loss success.
  10. 20 Foods to Help You Lose Weight. Broken down into breakfast, lunch, munchies, dinner, and dessert; this list gives lots of great ideas for food you can eat guilt-free.

De-Stress

Tense muscles, headache, and feeling frazzled are all signs you may be too stressed. The suggestions below offer helpful tips on ways you can instantly relieve stress and also help you restructure the way you live so that the stress doesn’t have to be a constant part of your life.

  1. Instant Calmer: 11 Easy Answers to On-the-Job Stress. These helpful tips are easy to implement and will have you back on track and feeling calmer in no time.
  2. 20 Ways to Eliminate Stress From Your Life. Some of these are simple and others a bit more drastic, but you are sure to find some solutions to the stress in your life.
  3. 5 Homemade Bath Soaks and Salts. One great way to literally wash the stress out of your life is with a relaxing soak in the tub. This list will help you enjoy that soak.
  4. 6 Ways to De-Stress. These tips focus on a more global approach to living a more stress-free life.
  5. Top Ten Tips to Destress Fast from Erin Hefner of Personal Best Massage. Focus on these five physical stress relievers to get immediate relief.
  6. The Top 10 Steps to DeStress. Use these suggestions to create a way of living that produces less self-expectation and pressure.
  7. 10 Top Meditation Retreats. If travel is in your budget and you are looking for a place to go to de-stress, watch this slide show for ideas. If you can’t get away, you may feel some of the stress slip away just looking at these beautiful places.
  8. Five Tips to De-stress Your Life. Like some of the other lists, this one offers suggestions on making changes to the way you live in order to live less stressfully.
  9. Top 10 of top 10’s: Ways to de-stress, progress and relax. While this list is specifically aimed at holiday stress, the suggestions are good ideas to implement all year.
  10. Top 10 Stress Relievers: The Best Ways to Feel Better. Take these actions to reduce stress instantly. Make them a habit and you may avoid feeling that stress creep back into your life.

Enjoy Life

It’s easy to get caught up in life and forget to enjoy it all. Take the time to slow down and find pleasure in life. All of these ideas can help you find your happiness.

  1. 5 Ways to Experience the Benefits of Traveling Without Leaving Town. Not everyone has the time or money to get away for vacation, but following these suggestions can tide you over until you can take that trip.
  2. 8 Powerful Ways to Rediscover Your Passion. It’s easy to get caught up in the rut of our daily existence. If you need to shake it up and rediscover yourself, these steps will help.
  3. 5 Steps to Finding True Joy and Removing Sorrow. Learn how to identify and recognize emotional responses so that you can redirect the negative to a more uplifting, positive expression.
  4. Out of the Box: 11 Ways to Break Out of the Same Old Routine. Living in a routine can feel safe, but it can also hold you back from your potential. These suggestions will set you on a new path.
  5. Work and Life: 15 Ways to Strike a Balance. With busy lifestyles today, it is easy to feel pulled in many directions. This list offers ways to find the balance.
  6. 10 Quick Examples of Zen Living. Embrace these life lessons in order to find your joy.
  7. Wake Up Feeling Great with These 22 Tips for High Self-Esteem. These suggestions will have you feeling better about yourself and improve how you approach your life.
  8. 10 Surefire Ways to Kill Your Crabby Mood. A bad mood can affect your productivity, relationships, and the way you feel about yourself. Use these tips to rise above it.
  9. 21 Rules of Life. Imagine what a place the world would be if everyone followed these rules.
  10. 75 Simple Pleasures to Brighten Your Day. Some of these are so sweet they will brighten your day just reading about them. Readers have left some of their own ideas in the Comments section below the list.


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