Sometimes, people have life problems that can be entirely solved by doing one thing. (doing X made my life 0.1% better, PERMANENTLY!) These are not things like “This TAP made me exercise more frequently”, but rather like “moving my scale into my doorway made me weigh myself more, causing me to exercise more frequently”—a one-shot solution that makes a reasonable amount of progress in solving a problem.
I’ve found that I’ve had a couple of life problems that I couldn’t solve because I didn’t know what the solution was, not because it was hard to solve—once I thought of the solution, implementation was not that difficult. I’m looking to collect various one-shot solutions to problems to expand my solution space, as well as potentially find solutions to problems that I didn’t realize I had.
Please only put one problem-solution pair per answer.
My read is that over half the non-OP answers are not one-shot enough to match the question, and have downvoted them (weakly). I’m curious for feedback on this use of downvoting
I agree that many answers aren’t the sort of one-shot things that I was looking for.
Downvoting in general confuses me, but I think that downvoting to 0 is appropriate if the answer isn’t quite answering the question, but downvoting past zero doesn’t make sense. Downvoting to 0 feels like saying “this isn’t that helpful” whereas downvoting past 0 feels like “this is actively harmful”.
This comment makes a lot of sense, and is consistent with consensus on Stack Exchange. For this reason, I’ve changed my voting method from my previous policy of voting independently of the current score.
I bought ~$5 medicine dispensers with weekday labels, which improved my life by ~15%.
Due to a psychiatric illness, I have to take a single pill every morning. It wasn’t very complicated, so I just took them from the blister pack she was carrying. If I forget to take a pill, I feel uncomfortable in the evening. Not too much, but what was much more stressful was that I often didn’t *know* it: Did I forget to take the pill in the morning? Or is my condition worsening? This uncertainty was really scary.
With the Medi-Dispenser I forget the pill less often, and more importantly: if I feel uncomfortable in the evening, I can check the dispenser, and in 95% I recognize it again: No, my condition does not get worse, I only forgot to take my pill in the morning. Then I go to sleep and make sure that I take the next pill the day after.
PS: I am a little embarrassed that it took me about 5 years to come to this simple solution. I’ll share it anyway, if it helps anyone else.
Consider filling up a second dispenser ahead of time. That way, if you’re completely exhausted but it’s time to take your medication, you can yank the second box off the shelf and refill things when you’re more awake. It also gives you a 1 week buffer to refill your prescription.
Pill counting trays are also helpful if you have to take medications that come in a bottle. Buy one that has Amazon reviews from real pharmacists and put the cap under the spout on the right side to catch any runaway pills. This will dramatically reduce the # of pills that fall to the floor.
Getting into bed by 6pm and waking up at 3am (small win), going through my moring routine: 20 pushup 10 knee ups to warm/ wake up (small win), make bed (small win), at least 30 min walk outside (small win) all these thing set my day up to be productive I the last 5 months I’ve accomplished many Sunrise hikes, over 21 friends made, read many books i’d been meaning to get to, started carrying around a journal and writing everything down. Some of the moments of the last 5 months have been the best of my life, I have been feeling great. I have accomplish more towards my life goals in 5 months than I have in 3 years.
I like to watch the sunrise, it also feels pretty inspiring when you complete tasks early and while everyone else is waking up your work for the day is done and you can enjoy your self. Its also a hard thing to do, a small win (the power of habit) something that when I have the discipline to do gives me greater freedom “start your day with a task complete” (make your bed) and chains into getting more and more done that day.
Sources: Make your Bed The Power of Habit Extreme Ownership
I’m fine with uncertain answers if the response is qualified, e.g. “I did one-shot-things A, B along with non-one-shot-thing C and observed that Y problem was solved after. Subjectively, it feels like A solved most of the problem.”
[Question] What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?
Sometimes, people have life problems that can be entirely solved by doing one thing. (doing X made my life 0.1% better, PERMANENTLY!) These are not things like “This TAP made me exercise more frequently”, but rather like “moving my scale into my doorway made me weigh myself more, causing me to exercise more frequently”—a one-shot solution that makes a reasonable amount of progress in solving a problem.
I’ve found that I’ve had a couple of life problems that I couldn’t solve because I didn’t know what the solution was, not because it was hard to solve—once I thought of the solution, implementation was not that difficult. I’m looking to collect various one-shot solutions to problems to expand my solution space, as well as potentially find solutions to problems that I didn’t realize I had.
Please only put one problem-solution pair per answer.
My read is that over half the non-OP answers are not one-shot enough to match the question, and have downvoted them (weakly). I’m curious for feedback on this use of downvoting
I agree that many answers aren’t the sort of one-shot things that I was looking for.
Downvoting in general confuses me, but I think that downvoting to 0 is appropriate if the answer isn’t quite answering the question, but downvoting past zero doesn’t make sense. Downvoting to 0 feels like saying “this isn’t that helpful” whereas downvoting past 0 feels like “this is actively harmful”.
This comment makes a lot of sense, and is consistent with consensus on Stack Exchange. For this reason, I’ve changed my voting method from my previous policy of voting independently of the current score.
I bought ~$5 medicine dispensers with weekday labels, which improved my life by ~15%.
Due to a psychiatric illness, I have to take a single pill every morning. It wasn’t very complicated, so I just took them from the blister pack she was carrying. If I forget to take a pill, I feel uncomfortable in the evening. Not too much, but what was much more stressful was that I often didn’t *know* it: Did I forget to take the pill in the morning? Or is my condition worsening? This uncertainty was really scary.
With the Medi-Dispenser I forget the pill less often, and more importantly: if I feel uncomfortable in the evening, I can check the dispenser, and in 95% I recognize it again: No, my condition does not get worse, I only forgot to take my pill in the morning. Then I go to sleep and make sure that I take the next pill the day after.
PS: I am a little embarrassed that it took me about 5 years to come to this simple solution. I’ll share it anyway, if it helps anyone else.
From one chronic health person to another...
Consider filling up a second dispenser ahead of time. That way, if you’re completely exhausted but it’s time to take your medication, you can yank the second box off the shelf and refill things when you’re more awake. It also gives you a 1 week buffer to refill your prescription.
Pill counting trays are also helpful if you have to take medications that come in a bottle. Buy one that has Amazon reviews from real pharmacists and put the cap under the spout on the right side to catch any runaway pills. This will dramatically reduce the # of pills that fall to the floor.
Getting into bed by 6pm and waking up at 3am (small win), going through my moring routine: 20 pushup 10 knee ups to warm/ wake up (small win), make bed (small win), at least 30 min walk outside (small win) all these thing set my day up to be productive I the last 5 months I’ve accomplished many Sunrise hikes, over 21 friends made, read many books i’d been meaning to get to, started carrying around a journal and writing everything down. Some of the moments of the last 5 months have been the best of my life, I have been feeling great. I have accomplish more towards my life goals in 5 months than I have in 3 years.
Sources:
The Miracle Morning
The Power of Habit
Why is it better to wake up at 3 am compared to 6 or 7 am?
I suspect the best sleep schedule is highly individual.
I like to watch the sunrise, it also feels pretty inspiring when you complete tasks early and while everyone else is waking up your work for the day is done and you can enjoy your self. Its also a hard thing to do, a small win (the power of habit) something that when I have the discipline to do gives me greater freedom “start your day with a task complete” (make your bed) and chains into getting more and more done that day.
Sources:
Make your Bed
The Power of Habit
Extreme Ownership
Can you offer intangible solutions, like something you do with your perspective?
How sure of a thing are yoy looking for? I usually try a bunch of things for any issue I have, not usual that sure what exactly fixed the issue
I’m fine with uncertain answers if the response is qualified, e.g. “I did one-shot-things A, B along with non-one-shot-thing C and observed that Y problem was solved after. Subjectively, it feels like A solved most of the problem.”