r/LifeProTips

I went for long walks and taught myself how to whistle loudly. Put two fingers (thumb, plus pointer or middle) in your mouth, on your bottom lip, then put the underside of the tip of your tongue against your fingers… then blow. Try again. Try again. Eventually you will be able to whistle very loudly. Very useful for silencing a crowded room, getting someone’s attention from far away, and generally impressing people with a basic skill. Good luck!

Mine would be persuasive speaking like practicing speaking slower, pausing, framing arguments, asking good questions and storytelling. Probably one of the most highest ROI skills alive.

Tell them who is who, who lives there, and any names they will hear a lot.

Do not make a guest join season 4 with no recap.

Instead of thinking about your entire day, make the first few minutes enjoyable.

A favorite coffee, music playlist, podcast, or breakfast can make getting out of bed feel less like a chore.

Sometimes the hardest part is simply getting started.

My old roommate used to do this every night and I thought it was ridiculous until I actually tried it. It’s a trick to stop your mind from looping through stressful thoughts when you're trying to sleep.Usually, when people can't sleep, they try to just "clear their mind" but that never works because it's too easy your brain can still stress about work while you're doing it.

You need a task that’s just boring enough to let you zone out, but difficult enough that you can't think about anything else.Pick a random category like "movies" or "types of food". Go through the alphabet and name one thing for each letter A for Apple, B for Banana, and so on. If you hit a hard letter like Q or X, just skip it immediately; if you struggle for more than a few seconds, you'll just wake yourself up more. The goal is just to keep your inner monologue busy with something neutral until your thoughts start to get fuzzy and you pass out. I've done this dozens of times now and I have honestly never once made it to Z.

People can refill drinks without blocking the food. One table should not become the whole party traffic jam.

I took a pay cut with a temp agency. Since it was quite a bit less stress, I started thinking about it in the background just like another chore. Before I knew it, things fell right into place.

Over the past three years, I have lost more than 14 people I knew well( friends, neighbors, family members), and they were all kind, harmless individuals.

I also lost my first pet, whom I had since I was 14 (now I am 24) and he was truly the first unconditional love of my life.

Now, I find it impossible to form new connections. I have completely isolated myself, except for my parents and siblings. Even with my new cat, I can’t look at her or dot on her without feeling terrified.

There are nights when I can’t sleep because I am so afraid that my parents might die.

A bunch of people who were the most lively and healthy in their circle died first .I am afraid I have seen how fragile life is. Especially after locking eyes with a toddler as he was passing, who was just a day ago as healthy as a horse.

PS: I am agnostic.

Keep a running list in your notes file on your phone of places you've put items you don't use often. I often expect to remember where I put something because it makes so much sense to me at the time, but months later I can't recall that clever location. I use the title "Where Is It" and update the file when placing an item somewhere new. I can simply do a search in my notes file, and have no more frustrating hours-long searches for that perfect location I haven't remembered. It's amazing how often that has saved me

Many budget, and other common brands, use fiberglass in their memory foam mattresses. It's used to meet fire safety compliances, but is not required to be disclosed by any regulations.

It is a huge hazard, and safety risk if the fibers ever get out, either by washing or aging. Any type of agitation to the mattress could send the fibers into the air, and stuck to your clothes. The contamination can be as bad a bed bugs, and spreads very easily between fabrics.

It can cause inflammation in your lungs, and severe irritation of your skin.

Please double check about whether your brand might have fiberglass, and consider getting another brand or a fully zippered hypoallergenic mattress protector.

Culantro is an herb that has a very similar flavor to cilantro but doesn’t contain all the aldehydes that make people with a genetic predisposition taste soap when they eat cilantro. It can be found online, at many Asian markets, or even grown yourself if you feel like doing that. Bit of warning though, it is much stronger than cilantro.

Press it thin (under 1cm) before freezing. Instead of a frozen brick you have to microwave forever, you get a rice "sheet" that snaps into portions by hand and reheats in about 45 seconds straight from frozen. Been doing this for months, zero more soggy re-microwaved rice.

A lot of people treat rest like something they only get after every bill, deadline, errand, and problem is handled.

So instead of waiting for the perfect empty day, put a small break inside the mess.

Even 10 quiet minutes between tasks can stop you from carrying the stress of one problem straight into the next one.

The goal is not to avoid responsibility. It is to recover a little before you keep going.

I was taking a group photo of my family recently. After we got the "official" picture, I said, "Okay, we're done," but instead of putting my phone down, I quietly took one more photo. Later, when we were going through all the pictures, that last one was everyone's favorite. No one was forcing a smile anymore. Some people had started laughing, a couple were looking at each other instead of the camera, and everyone just looked much more relaxed and natural. Since then, I've started doing it every time I take group photos. It only takes an extra second, but that "we're done" photo has surprisingly often turned out to be the best one.

Today I was travelling down the highway and torrential rains came out of nowhere, wiping out visibility. The person in front of me and several others turned on their four ways, which was a huge help and felt like it immediately made us all safer.

Never seen this happen before but I will forever do this going forward.