DAY 1 The Writing Inquisition - Starting the life hack

Once you've waded through all the 'I can haz cheeseburger' cat youtubes one can possibly stand, there's all the advice in the world on the world wide web about how to get the best out of life.

How to get more hours in the day, how to worry more about all the things you worry you're not worried enough about, how to think big by starting small, how to live richly but minimally, how to roar and avoid being taken like a poor little gazelle in a ponzi scheme, how to do the crime and avoid the time, how to run wild and walk cautiously, how to shoot for the stars, and the importance of watching out for life's bindies.

19th century life hack. 
Now I can shortcut 
the time I spend on 
drawing ducks.

For international readers unfamiliar with the ways of Australiana, bindis are a prickly lawn weed found here during the summer months. Step on them and you'll pay for it. It's not whacking your thumb with a hammer type pain; they  sting, bite, and then rip your foot off like a shark (just kidding, Tourism Australia), but we step on them all the time, in lawns throughout the land, millions of us, every year. 

Someone needs to invent a rubber type shoe in a variety of colours and styles we can just slip on easily and quickly. Fine, I'll do it. I'll call them thongos. Tell your friends. They'll be available Summer 2020.

I'm not here to tell you how to avoid bindi type situations in your life garden, however, listen up, and listen up carefully or you'll miss the complexities. The world wide web doesn't just hand out bindi advice everyday. 

Have you noticed that life is full of bindies? It is commonly known that you really need to take a long term approach to rid your life of them. They colonise your garden, your space, and you have to tackle that infestation situation before the plant develops. 

You can manually remove each one or you can spray the suckers with weed killer. And make sure you do regular bindi patrols so they don't take over your life. This is great life advice. What a great life hack.

I've noted the new, hip, fashionably jargonistic term called life hacks. At first I thought they sounded very Jack the Ripperesque, but then I found our life hacks refer to "any trick, shortcut, skill or novelty method that increase productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life". And I think we're all going to put our hands up for that. 

So my life hack - for the month of July - is to write more. On here. Every day. About anything. All the things. To encourage me to write more. Life hack month. I'm going to try and do something different, or something a little differently, every day, to get some inspiration, motivation. Let the life hack commence forthwith.