List of Neat Life Hacks from the Book (original text) by Jonathan R. Tuck
Neat Life Hacks: Consider that the only difference between ‘successful’ people and other people is their mentality, the way they think, and the confidence, drive and determination that they have in themselves. I believe that anybody can be as successful as them (on their chosen path), if they really want to, and if they sought the tools to develop themselves to be the way they need to be to succeed
Neat Life Hacks: Just because society teaches us to view quotes and sayings as ‘old wives’ tales’ or ‘cliché’, and encourages us to pay little attention to them, it doesn’t make them any less profoundly true or beneficial to those who are brave enough to indulge them
Neat Life Hacks: They say that a dreamer is a fool. I say that if you don’t follow your dreams, then you are by far the greater fool
Neat Life Hacks: If it’s what you enjoy doing, then in general and within reason, it’s probably what you should be doing, and will inevitably lead to your success and happiness, and the happiness of others around you, in the long term
Neat Life Hacks: Often when facing challenging situations, the best path that you can follow is guided by your ‘intuition’ and ‘gut feeling’. I believe that this is one of the ways that your soul, and indeed the universe itself, is able to communicate with you, and guide you on your journey.
Neat Life Hacks: When challenged by a situation or task that’s way too big to contemplate all at once, then break it down into small steps, or ‘chunks of elephant’, as I was once taught. When you break a task or goal down into ‘bite sized’ chunks, and take things step-by-step, it not only helps you to avoid the fear of not being able to complete, what on the face of it seems like an impossible task, but it also makes the whole process in general, far more simple, and far more harmoniously adaptable
Neat Life Hacks: Don’t worry if it doesn’t all make sense to you right now, or if you find it confusing or challenging, or even scary, or don’t even want to know about it, or think about it as a result. When you’re ready to think about it, if you ever are, you will do your own research, and one day it will all just click
Neat Life Hacks: You’ve really got nothing to lose, and everything to gain from trying to enjoy being at school, or working to gain the necessary and appropriate life skills and experience
Neat Life Hacks: Accept the fact that you understand that the primary purpose of school is to teach you to conform, and to erode your ability to think critically, and to brainwash you to fit into our bastardised society. Accept this, but with this knowledge in mind, pay attention to what’s important to you, and what interests you, and pretend very hard that you enjoy anything else, no matter how tedious you find it, particularly paying attention not to disturbing the ‘learning’ of other students. Your teachers in general are trying to help you, and want to help you in the best way that they can within the system they have to work with. Try to make it easier for them, and above everything, try to make what you do enjoyable and fun for yourself (without disrupting the rest of the class!)
Neat Life Hacks: Understand that the primary purpose of the media, news and television is to program our minds and institutionalise us into becoming the slaves that, for the majority, we are. Free yourself and your mind by questioning everything you read or hear, particularly if you recognise the message as being negative, and reject anything that doesn’t feel good, or resonate with your core. Tap into your gut feeling and intuition whenever you can
Neat Life Hacks: Always research anything that you want to know anything about, particularly things that you’re interested in and never tell anyone anything with confidence, if you are not honestly confident in what you are saying yourself –people important to your life and development will respect you far more this way, and will be more inclined to listen with interest to anything you do have to say. generally, I’d advise that If you don’t have anything interesting or informative to say, then don’t say it (which is rich coming from me, having been a part-time gob-shite for most of my life)!
Neat Life Hacks: It all begins with belligerent and brutal self-honesty in becoming aware of your behaviour, and allowing it and accepting it, so to lay the foundations for the task of the rebuilding of the true you, and your ultimate success
Neat Life Hacks: Take responsibility for your own self-education and learning, and actively research the things that interest you and excite you, or things that you need to understand better to complete a particular task or goal, for whatever reason. Make best use of your own time to do this. You can only benefit from this yourself in the long term, even if you think that you are doing it to benefit someone else in the short term
Neat Life Hack: Always strive to put yourself outside of your comfort zone, within reason. What you’ll find when you put yourself outside of your comfort zone is that when you look back on what you’ve accomplished, you can see how much easier it looks from the other side, and that the fear that you experienced prior to it, has evaporated and become insignificant
Neat Life Hacks: Be very careful what you wish for!
Neat Life hacks: Money is reported to be a made-up concept used to control the people of the earth. If money is what you want, and what you focus your desire on, then I’m pretty sure it will only lead you to misery and disappointment. I see money as being simply a tool to get what you want (Bob proctor), and to satisfy your desires. So, if I focus with passion and desire on what it is I actually want, and not on the money, and if I have belief and faith in the process (which I absolutely do), then the money just happens, and facilitates whatever it is!
Neat Life Hacks: What I have found consistently in my life is that when you really want to achieve, or do, or get something, and you focus your desires on it, with belief and faith, feeling and visualisation, life will often throw a whole ton of confusion and challenges at you, just before the point of breakthrough and achievement. hence the expression ‘three feet from gold’ (taken from ‘Think and Grow Rich’). What I’ve found is, it’s like life is saying, ‘are you sure you really want this?’, and if you remain strong and focussed, and plough through the challenges, then it will see that you are serious, and it will provide in abundance! Also, ‘three feet from gold’ is a good ‘What if, up’ statement (See 6.7)!
Neat life hacks: There is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason, and more often than not, because you, or someone else has attracted it into being or happening. For the same reason, I don’t believe in ‘luck’ as we are led to understand it. It is my opinion that for the majority of cases, you create your own ‘luck’, and I often wish people the best of ‘Tuck’!
Neat Life Hacks: Don’t ever take anything or anyone for granted. Now that’s challenging, because we live in a society that has taught us to take pretty much everything for granted. Equally, don’t rely on your expectations. In fact, the best position is: do not have any expectations, but be aware of opportunity and possibility nevertheless. Be adaptive and innovative to change, because that’s the only certain thing in life (other than death) – change is inevitable, and those who resist it will suffer in the long term
Neat life hacks: I find great pleasure in doing things for others and helping others. Something that I learned is that what goes around, comes around. What I found is critically important to understand about this statement, is that giving must be unconditional, and one must never expect to be given back directly as a result, or to expect anything in return directly from those that you give to. You see, the way it works, is that if you give (or pay it forward), you will get your kindness or energy or love back, but it may come from a different person, angle or source
Neat Life Hack: Don’t be afraid to wish for what you really want, and not just what society leads you to perceive as being socially ‘reasonable’ or ‘realistic’
Neat Life Hacks: When confronted with a situation where you have to make a decision, have faith in your intuition and go with the first thing that springs to mind, or the thing you feel most strongly towards, even if it seems counter-intuitive. More often than not you will have made the right decision, however, if you subsequently feel as though you could have made a better decision, be grateful for the lesson that you learned, and apply the gained knowledge in the future
Neat life hacks: If you’re practising the law of attraction and affirmation, then there are a number of key ingredients that you MUST employ, and one of those is action! You can’t do an affirmation and ask for something, and then sit on your arse doing nothing waiting for it to happen! It’s not going to happen that way! You must take some actions and steps towards your goals, no matter what they are
Neat Life Hack: If you ever find yourself in a state of fight-or-flight, and you want to leverage the fight, rather than the flight, then simply take three deep breaths before you engage, and think positive thoughts about how you see yourself achieving what you want to do. Feel how happy it makes you
Neat Life Hack: I find it extraordinary that one of the most fundamental mechanisms of living; breathing, is taken for granted and almost ignored and misunderstood by many of the population, who seem to be prone to shallow breathing for the majority of the time. Breathe deeply whenever you can, and allow your body to absorb the oxygen it receives
Neat Life Hack: Yes, you really can choose how to think and subsequently feel about a situation. It takes practice, for sure, but in my opinion, there is no value to anyone in choosing to feel resentful, angry, disappointed, bitter, revengeful, jealous, or any of the other negative emotions that you would otherwise let yourself experience. Trust that there is positive to be found in any experience you endure, and actively find the positive
Neat life hacks: At a fundamental level you must be ‘selfish’ with yourself initially, in order to be able to enjoy the beauty and wonder of truly giving to others, caring for others and loving others in the future. Love yourself before you love anything or anyone else, and that love will radiate harmoniously outwards
Neat Life Hack: When communicating with others, in particular, those you respect, ask yourself whether you are sure that what you are saying is true, or whether you are simply regurgitating hearsay or rumour, and adjust your dialogue accordingly. If you do this then there is a far greater chance that you will be trusted and treated with respect in general, and that the receiver is more likely to be more honest with you as a result
Neat Life Hack: Trust everyone within reason immediately until such a point that they let you down, and if this happens then let them down gently and remove them from your life
Neat Life Hacks: If you experience a negative thought (stemming from a subconscious belief, or memory and associated feeling or emotion) at any time, you will find that if you consciously acknowledge it, accept it, and allow it, then it has no place to go, and it will simply disappear. It’s a bit like when someone is annoying you, antagonising you, or winding you up and you just accept that they are there but don’t take their bait, and don’t rise to the situation, they will get bored and eventually leave you alone
Neat Life Hacks: If a negative thought comes into your mind and you want to eradicate it, then simply repeat the words ‘I love you’ in your mind, until the negative thought has vanished
Neat life hacks: The What if ‘up’ technique. This is a very neat and simple technique to help you with negative thoughts and resulting emotions. For example, catch yourself thinking ‘what if the weather is going to be terrible for the match tomorrow’ and change that thought to ‘what if the weather is going to be a scorcher tomorrow, and we have a lovely day’, or ‘what if, whatever the weather does, I’m going to be happy anyway’. It’s free, and you’ve got nothing to lose, and if it doesn’t make you instantly happier, then I’ll give you your money back!
Neat Life Hack: When you feel that you are threatened by negativity or negative energy, ask to be connected to the source, then ask your guardian Angel to put a six-foot force-field around you to protect you, and visualise that barrier going up around you.
Neat life hacks: Just thinking about what others might be saying or thinking about you in a negative respect is negative self-thinking, and if you’re not careful, in this way can become a self-fulfilling prophecy
Neat Life Hacks: Whenever you feel challenged going into a situation or activity, take the time to set your intentions first, and focus on expecting a positive outcome. Intention is a very powerful thought process, which can be used effectively at any time that you want to have a positive influence on a future event. In fact, I’d say, where possible, always try to set your intention before doing anything
Neat Life Hacks: If you take the time to analyse the language that you use, relative to the feelings that you’re experiencing, as a result, you can begin to change the language that you use to be more positive, and subsequently raise your vibrational frequency. In doing so, you will inevitably feel better, more positive and happy, and you will in turn attract more positive into your life
Neat Life Hacks: If you’re not putting yourself out there and making mistakes, and learning from them, then inevitably, you’re not moving forward in life
Neat Life Hacks: Remember that when you apologise to someone, or say ‘sorry’, then the most positive position you can put yourself in is to use that experience to address your behaviour in the future to ensure that you do not make the same mistake again
Neat Life Hacks: Don’t ever be afraid to say that you don’t understand something, or be afraid of asking ‘stupid’ questions. In your quest for understanding, there are no stupid questions, and actually, sometimes the most stupid questions are the most thought provoking and profound
Neat Life Hacks: Recognise and accept that everyone on earth is a unique and valuable individual, and that prejudice and class status, for example, is a socially imposed poison of the mind. Treat everybody the same, no matter who they are, where they’re from, what they do, what their level of wisdom or intelligence is, or what colour their skin is, because they are souls on the same journey as you are, just at a different stage, and with different purpose
Neat Life Hacks: As a general rule of thumb, I’d recommend that if you don’t have anything good to say about anyone or anything, then simply say nothing at all. And once you’ve recognised that you don’t have anything good to say about something or someone, I’d recommend trying to look for something good to think about them or it – no matter how challenging that may be. Equally, take a good look at the negative you have recognised in them, and see if you can identify that trait within yourself
Neat Life Hacks: If you catch yourself complaining about something, then try to change the way you think about the situation to be positive. It doesn’t matter what the positive thinking is, it just needs to be positive, and I am sure that in doing this, if nothing else, it will make you feel better about the situation. As a bonus, I believe, it will also bring you much closer to gaining what you actually want
Neat Life Hack: Don’t beat yourself up for anything. What’s done is done. the best position you can put yourself in, is to accept that you’ve made a mistake, and to use the opportunity to actively work towards learning from it, and to improve your behaviour in the future
Neat Life Hack: Remove negative people from your life. Negativity breeds negativity and only acts to erode your positivity and higher state of resonance (vibrational frequency). You cannot help these people. Try to surround yourself with people who inspire you and build your positive energy, and vice versa
Neat Life Hacks: Be aware of the fact that when you first get into a relationship, it is likely that both you and your partner will initially tell each other about who you view yourselves to be in your conscious minds, and that this may be a very different reality to who you are and how you actually behave, based on the beliefs you hold in your sub-conscious minds. I consider that the best relationships work when you are truly best friends before you are lovers, or committed to the relationship
Neat Life Hacks: To put yourself in a better position to give and receive love unconditionally in a relationship, you must first truly love yourself. You must put yourself in a position whereby you have no expectations or demands. You must accept and make allowance for who your partner truly is, and you must hold no governance over them
Neat Life Hacks: Remember that when anything is presented as a theory, it is referred to it as such because that’s exactly what it is, a theory! For example, the theory of relativity, is a theory. Darwin’s explanation of evolution, is a theory. Gravity is a theory. Particle Physics and particle geometry is a theory “there are no particles, just resonance and frequency” – see double-slit experiment! Quantum theory and Heliocentrism, the theory that the earth and planets revolve around the sun – now that’s a good one! Etc…
