Let's Hack Your Life

and today we are starting the day with

some habits to hack your life

some fun things to upcycle

and

an interesting recipe that seems to be a

trend

let's uh

let's roll

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good morning everybody my name is rob

this is everyday heroes uh one of the

shows we have on ultra universe here

that covers more of the uh informational

and educational topics

but it's always a good fun time now we

wouldn't be able to talk this kind of

stuff without

the person i know as mom

but you guys can call her

karen

i mean you could call her mom that might

be odd i don't know hello

it's a thing i guess um

all right so this one works well because

on our mental health show we talk

tips and tricks of how to do things

easier for the body for the mind for

both

and for everybody i guess um and one

thing that i do

a lot is try to see what kind of habits

i can add to my day

to make it that much better

one thing that i have done recently is

first thing in the morning do a 10 or 15

minute workout

get the blood flowing

get the brain pumping

brain brain going brain dump pump do the

heart pumping brain going something like

that as you can tell it works wonders um

so that's something that we've been

doing and actually it's been almost two

weeks now and it actually is a nice

little boost of energy in the morning so

i put all the websites we're going

through on the chat so if you guys want

to check them out feel free the first

one is from lifehack.org

they have 25 tiny habits we're only

going to go over a few today

but the first one is one that i think

we've talked about

on and off

drink a glass of water first thing in

the morning uh the one thing a lot of

people don't realize is when you are

asleep the body does lose

i want to say maybe 70 of the water a

lot of your water is taken probably from

what your body does while you're asleep

um not only is a good way to replenish

but if it's a nice cost of cold water

it's another way to kind of open you up

and

you know cold water um this particular

blog says if you want to make it easier

put a bottle next to your bed

put a bottle in your bathroom i actually

have one because i take you know some

vitamins in the morning so i have a

bottle of water in my bathroom already

um but this is one that i think is

probably easier done than people think

because

most now i know a lot of people are soda

drinkers which i know is a bad habit but

i think a lot of people drink more water

than they already realize they do so why

not just do it at a time when it's

actually going to function out

functionally um wake your body up um

i now what i would say is if you're

going to do some exercise drink a little

bit

and then drink more after because the

last thing you want to do on a full

stomach is exercise especially water

i've learned the hard way with a bunch

of water and then go do something and

i'm just like oh because water is

heavier than you think it is

when you fill so that's the one thing i

would say is if you're gonna work out in

the morning

maybe drink a little bit but then drink

your your remainder after you've done

your stretching your workout what have

you

um

another interesting one that they have

and um

oh so one that kind of goes with what we

talked about stand up and stretch

um they say do it on the hour uh if you

don't have the time to do that do it a

couple times now we do it at night

because krista's uh professor medical uh

person said for

her for her get some stretching in

because it helps kind of loosen the body

so every night that's when we do it

however a head roll a shoulder roll uh

arm whatever

most people even if you're at work you

can probably take a minute to do so at

your desk so

i wouldn't say necessarily on the hour i

don't know what you think but i would

say probably do some stretching

a couple times um

so when you met you meditate you also

have your yoga mat would you count your

yoga as kind of your stretch slash

workout or no because i i don't really

do i have a yoga mat i just don't

do yoga that doesn't make you sound good

yeah um no but in my case what i'll do

is i will walk i'll i'll take the dog

for a walk and it's and it's an easy

walk oh and you know i'm swinging my

arms and i'm just you know getting my

body

waked up woken up and you know the dog

likes it too so

you know i gotta say you know that

you're like you're doing it for the dog

you're doing it for you but actually

yeah because you are stretching your

legs you're getting the uh the blood

flowing all that good stuff right

um

another one here and this is more for

the mind they say keep a little tray of

art supplies near your work desk or

somewhere that you're always sitting at

that way if you have a few minutes and

you want to get creative

take out a pencil take out a pen

draw color do what you feel

um

for no other reason than just kind of

breaking the monotony of

doing your work throughout the day

we talked about it in other versions of

it i'll be doing it for open-mindedness

all that good stuff as well but it works

both ways i think it's something to kind

of break up the the general schedule and

you know if you're very creative they

even recommend maybe clay or something

like that and actually build

you would probably what go for the

zentangle i'm sure

you know what so on my little breaks

what i'll do is i'll open my journal and

i'll do a zentangle in there

because it's whatever is going on in my

mind at the moment and so i like to keep

record of it um and so that's what i do

that's what i would do i don't know if i

would do clay or any of that kind of

stuff it's messy um

and i think i get very agitated just

throw it against the wall and be like

i'm done

the next one here goes with that except

it's the writing and they're saying grab

a notepad grab a pencil

and write some stuff down uh some

calendars will say you know write your

thoughts some calendars will say

write down whatever the hell you feel

like writing or what are you grateful

for what do you agree with

so you don't really have to have a

meeting what you're writing but write

something down and then i always find it

fun once a while go back to the journal

and go what if i can read my writing

because i can't read it but i'll go back

and go what what was i what did i write

huh um but it is kind of fun to do

because it gives you something to do

separate from your work

right

yeah

one of the things that you know if you

don't know what you want to say you run

out of ideas or you

just google

journal prompts and you'll get a whole

list of ideas to talk about

um and you know like just pick one i

sometimes i'll just you know close my

eyes and just you know put my finger

down and whatever one i end up with if

i'm if i just don't know what to talk

about which is very rare uh but if i

don't

um you know i need a prompt i need i

need something to like get me going so

prompts are good and you can google it

yeah and i like them too sometimes

they're very obscure and i'm like why

would anybody write about that but

sometimes you come across when you're

like

and actually my com calendar this month

is actually all writing prompts

not all of them are actually necessary

to be answered because some of them are

really one-word answers but there's been

a few so far that have been you know and

all and we we email them to each other

so we can save them somewhere for later

use uh but yeah prompts are great

because

i mean look you don't really know what

you want to talk about half the time

honestly right so why not do that now

the last one we're going to go over we

kind of we talked about before

um for one period of time and i would

call it my work session turn off any

excess notifications or noise and just

work on the one thing you're doing

for me my work session is twice a day we

have you know the video here and one at

noon

so during that period of time whether

it's the 30 minute video or if it's an

hour because i have to do something

after

um i will just do that my phone is out

of my office for uh video time it's up

here if i need it to connect to my

computer um but i would you know i would

move all of that out of there and just

work on it for me it's become

a

subconscious but i know for a while i

was bringing things back and forth

so

it's kind of funny how

there's an end to that there's actually

a name for what you're doing it's called

time blocking

and

i'm blocking okay there's it's an actual

thing and i do it as well but i i

actually block off um sections in my

calendar and during those times i just

say this is what i'm working on this is

like a work time it's like you do and i

turn everything off but i tend to turn

everything off at this point all day

long because i don't want to be

jolted out of my work situation so i'm

with you on that one

okay that makes sense

um

all right so

um really quick i was actually i didn't

realize these pictures were going to

download for me so let me throw um for

our next topic here because one of the

things that i love doing as you know uh

the upcycle and that's a great way to

motivate yourself physically mentally

because a good life hack is always why

not reuse instead of throwing away we're

actually talking about this yesterday

how a lot of people are saying you know

not enough recycling done

i don't think it's the fact that

recycling is not being done i think it's

that there's better uses for it and yes

we know the plastic takes a while we

know that certain stuff takes a while

but if you can do something reuse it

with your stuff

you know why not so let me just throw up

some of these let me make sure these are

all the right ones okay cool so

i found this off of flora and fauna.com

very cute name for a uh uh website and

then a blog all about upcycling again

the link is

in the um

chat right there i can speak i swear

people um okay so the first one i found

that was kind of neat

is the diy plastic bottle planter so i

know dad used to have a lot of soda at

home so all you would do

is basically cut the bottle in half

invert it and you've made yourself a

planter what's cool about this if it's a

it's almost a self-watering planter

because the water will be down there

and it will soak up as you go all you

need to pick up

is some mulch your plant or if you want

to make it more of a decor you can lose

the water and just pop a succulent in

there and boom you now have this is cool

rob this is really cool and i've

actually i remember this as a science

experiment from school i remember this

is one of those things in my science

books that was probably one of those

any ten-year-old kid can make this

because it only takes

two or three what i'm laughing at though

is is that i have all these smart water

bottles

that i'm always like thinking to myself

there must be something i can do with

the smart water bottle because they're

really cool bottles i mean they're thin

and i'm thinking we could literally

create a an herb garden with all of

these by cutting them in half and

turning them upside down and putting

them this way this is

cool

good shape

and just just just a fyi the other one

you can actually use them as bird

feeders too you can cut a side of the

water bottle off hang it by the uh where

the mouthpiece would be and you have a

water bottle now with that one you do

want to make sure it's secure because

it's kind of flimsy but i i do like this

one that we have on the screen because

it's kind of like we were talking about

the gardening show with the little the

pots except you don't really have to buy

anything it's almost free

just pick up some mulch and pick up some

seeds

and my guess is too if you know how to

read plants you might be able to pull

them up from your backyard and pop them

into

one of these or vegetables you know we

were talking the other day you know

where you have um the end of a carrot

you know take the carrot stem and you

put that in the dirt and supposedly it

regrows or onions

i saw something yesterday with orange

seeds that they took the orange seeds

put them on cotton pads that were wet

and then some cinnamon and i don't know

why cinnamon but they put cinnamon on it

they put the seed in it and they closed

it up like a sandwich and within three

days it had sprouted they planted it and

then forever how long i don't know how

long they had oranges growing it was the

freakiest thing because it was like a

little plant so i'm not sure exactly how

to do it but it's cool and i think this

is a perfect thing i think we should do

these things

yeah there you go especially in the

desert right because who plants in the

desert um all right so now if you do

want to go more easier and not have an

actual plant

hand painted terracotta um

uh

what are they called planters

so this one you can plant uh flowers in

but really all you got to do you

purchase a couple of these little

ceramic guys or you know i have them run

that i have the ones i have so i can

paint my own if i want

take some uh ceramic paint and you have

a little decor this kind of works both

ways it works for the person who wants

to plant but also work for a person who

just wants some really cool stuff to put

on the shelves yeah um this would be the

opposite to i think what we just had up

the actual planting

um because yeah a lot of times people

just want to have some cool fake plants

right here and i've talked about one of

my pet shows is that if you do have

animals

more often than not 98 of the plants

aren't good to have around dogs or cats

so if you are worried about them eating

something

get a fake plant yeah you still don't

want them to be plastic obviously but at

least if it's a fake plant you know you

know you're like okay spit it out come

on um

so this one is cool i like the painting

part i'm not really sure the you know i

don't know they made it sound on the

block like it was for the gardener i

think this is more for the decor person

personally yeah the middle one looks

like it's um something that you put in a

wreath for christmas huckleberry it's

those berries yeah i can't remember what

they're called yeah it looks like those

little uh those little berries you put

in there and then of course the first

one looks like a succulent the last one

looks like it's dead honestly

it looks like a bunch of dead leaves if

they stuck

maybe that's a i don't know maybe it's a

boho

i don't know

um okay now this next one is really cool

um

candle holders that are no longer used

they're nice they're glass and they're

fancy

a lot of times you throw them out

what about

come on

using them as storage

um after wiping out any excess wax from

your candle give it a little rinse maybe

use some dish soap whatever you want you

now have

i mean hey you can even store food they

have hershey kisses and walnuts at the

bottom

this is a very smart idea because for me

i like you know glasses cool i

understand throwing out maybe like a

plastic thing you know because that's

not so fancy but this could be a very

well not could be this is a very easy

thing because what you're putting in

these containers you already have

purchased you're just making them look

good they have crayons right one has a

rubber band you know money

i i think it's a no-brainer i mean this

seemed way too simple to even be a deal

here's the trick i know one of the

challenges with with candles like this

is that there's always some candle left

over in the bottom and then how do you

get it out right

so here's a trick stick it in the

freezer

and then once it's frozen that thing

will just pop

right out

huh

okay well there you go guys that's how

you get rid of excess candle wax

now the last one on here you will need a

piece of furniture that you do not like

anymore because it's gonna get dirty but

i think this is so cool why not use an

old dresser as a flower bed

um this i see a lot on flea market tv

shows or on diy type of

articles

you can go as fancy as it looks like

these guys painted it because i've never

seen a peach colored dresser personally

and then really all you're going to do

is take it outside put it where you want

fill it with mulch and dirt and whatever

and you have a thing this is kind of

like the more fancy you know uh what is

it raised flowerbed type of deal right

now obviously you're going to need a

dresser you don't want to use and i

don't know how many people have spare

but

if you are pronounced

one

but rob does it say that they lined the

drawers so that when they put the dirt

in it it didn't rot out the bottom they

put like a plastic in it because or am i

getting two minutia here

because this is the most of the

description on here is really what it is

and how it looks it doesn't say

specifically

it talks about painting the exterior but

it doesn't say anything about the inside

but i wouldn't be surprised in order to

keep the flowers blooming you probably

would need a liner

that's

natural for

right or them so that's a good question

um

maybe holes in the bottom of the drawer

so that the water then drips out and

doesn't doesn't it's not sitting there

in a bunch okay yeah that could be cool

good stuff that you found here very cool

there you go so that's just a few of

them again if you want to check them out

more you can go to the website it

doesn't have all the details but it

tells you really what you what you're

looking at so you'll be able to go

purchase or use whatever you might have

now lastly as i was telling before we um

or i've been looking up a lot of habits

to add to my

daily

and i'll throw this picture up here i

wasn't going to but i think a visual aid

might be helpful

apparently one of the

i don't know why i don't know what's in

it personally but it's a detox cleanse

it's the

green smoothie craze now it looks like

from the visual it has apple we have

some lettuce spinach what not

and you blend it and you have a green

smoothie now i know there's jokes about

why would you eat that that's disgusting

um so

gaodrops.com

had a simple little recipe to use which

i'll see if i if i can find it on here

okay so their recipe was cup of yogurt

some raw spinach a couple chia seeds a

pear okay that was a pear excuse me um

one a juice of a lemon and then some

water

blend it together till you have a

smoothie consistency

and you're good um

it's a great way to get your greens i

guess great way to get your green so

they know that um it improves digestion

it helps lower risks of certain

illnesses it's high in iron antioxidants

that aids your heart your muscles and

your brain so there you go it's good for

the mind and the body

but i kind of wanted to you know get

your take if you had any on it um i know

because i know we talked about it takes

about a couple weeks or a month to do a

whole thing so they're saying it's the

21 day detox

so they're saying for three weeks you

drink one of these

i

so it takes 21 days according to the

experts for a habit to form so i think

that's the 21 days comes in

um

i mean you're going to start feeling the

effects before then but if you keep the

habit and so i think this is a two-piece

kind of thing

um 21 days

do a habit and and if you forget one day

just pick it up the next day you know

and and don't don't use that as an

excuse to say well you know i blew it

and i can't do it so you if you're gonna

do something like this um i look at that

and i'm sorry i you took the picture

down and i was literally like this but i

know i i have friends who who live on

green juice they love green juice that's

what they do every morning they drink

their green juice not me

well they also say here and i think it

goes what you're saying is if you don't

want to go this route there's the juice

recipes where it's more more sweet

there's the cleanses and then there's

just the general have some sort of

smoothie with your meal so a breakfast

version a lunch version and an inner

version as you go so i think you're

right on if you don't necessarily maybe

it doesn't stick or maybe you kind of

forget

try it out

it's one you know and and i look at it

because obviously a regular smoothie

from say a jamba or juice it up

obviously it's more sugar you know and

not necessarily bad sugar but fruit for

those who don't know has natural sugar

so the more fruit you put into a

smoothie

it's a sugar high it's not a caffeine

high but it's a sugar high

so i guess really when i'm looking at

this i'm going okay i like to smooth the

idea

but i

i don't know if i

maybe it's the look but i don't know if

i can get behind this particular one so

i'm wondering if you if you were to do

something

do you have a healthy smoothie in mind

that you would get behind and do for

a week or two yeah i mean i i drink

protein shakes in the morning these days

and i buy them pre-made i'm one of those

people that buys boost because it has

calories in it and i need calories

no sugar in it so some of these um

brands that you can now get in the

market what they they have sugar free

they have

glucose tolerant versions of it they

have

high calories high protein if you want

20 grams of protein in a shake so you

know if if you don't have the

wherewithal to do these kind of things

on your own

next best at least i believe is is

especially if you need to get your

nutrients and your vitamins is to go

find one of these there's lots of

different versions out there between um

premier and boost and um i'm on encore i

can't remember name but they don't

manage

yes and sure there's lots of them and i

think with the as the time has changed

in our in our world we're more conscious

of you shouldn't have so much sugar in

there and you shouldn't have this so

these if you look at the ingredients i'm

actually surprised because my first

thought was oh it's just a bunch of

sugar it's a sugar drink

no it actually is not it has 123

vitamins and minerals it has 14 grams of

protein it's 360 calories

it's a good choice if it you know in the

morning if you or in the afternoon or a

snack again if you're trying to get your

vitamins and you're not doing it with

whole food and i think that's the thing

you tend to do whole food right i mean

you get you take vitamins but you also

get your nutrients in your whole food

yeah

like when we pick up a snack like we

just grabbed a bag of almonds as a snack

as something more there we have fig bars

and it's made out of whole grain and

pure fig

so that's the kind of snack i go to but

when you're talking about the different

brands i know there used to be one in

calabasas where it was a um like a

juicery thing and they actually sold the

green stuff in bottles so if you wanted

a green smoothie you didn't want to make

it and those are specialty you have to

look for those they're not really

everywhere because they're like and

they're expensive but it just made me

think that some places do have them and

i'm sure if you look online and

you can find him but i just thought you

know we're talking hacks and

you know the smoothie thing is a big

deal and it's funny you said protein

because there's one video i saw where

literally this guy talks about how he

bulks up he's a bodybuilder and he

literally eats i don't know what is it

like 3 000 calories per per meal he eats

you know major protein so

it really depends on what you're going

at you know if if you're into that

fitness stuff and you do it great you

eat what you're doing if you're into the

losing weight part then you eat this if

you're just looking for a habit to kind

of get into

sure i mean a smoothie drink is easy to

do anybody can find one but i think the

point here that i'm now just kind of

getting is it's that it's the healthy

habit part it's not say go get a jamba

juice it's saying go get a smoothie

that's gonna have like you said 100

something

vitamins whatever you need to boost

exactly

this was good i mean we went over a

bunch we went over some habits for the

body for the mind we went over some

upcycling which really diy is a habit

for the mind and the body because right

you feel better after you don't waste

your your right and i think for all of

us you know we we live in a

consumer-driven

uh world so it's what can i buy what can

i have we know all this stuff everywhere

right it would be nice to know that we

can repurpose some of that stuff

that we have it's good for the

environment and it's good it's it's good

on so many levels so i love the idea of

repurposing and upcycling i just i love

the word upcycling just all by itself

it's a funny word i don't know i just i

like saying up cycles um all right guys

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you say be kind and go give someone a

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