I’ve always been interested in the self-help/ motivation/ personal development thing. For me, it tends to go in cycles; and when I turned to look at the latest stuff on the Web, I discovered the term “Lifehacking.” What the heck is Lifehacking?
In 2004 the term was coined to describe “quick and dirty” ways that hackers and programmers were using computer scripts to make their lives easier. Since then the term has grown to include any “appropriate application of ingenuity” to a problem; the term is used for everything from making your to do list easier to deal with to making your way out of the house faster in the morning to making it easier to share your lifestream with your friends. There are blogs devoted to lifehacking; ideas have been used as stories in mainstream newspapers; there are communities forming around the concept. I even found a Russian news story about a LiveJournal blog community that shares lifehacking tips — not all of them legal!
The concept has gone worldwide — while looking at lifehacking entries in Perspctv this morning, all of the tweets containing the term were in German! And there’s an interesting start to a lifehacking series over on Slate about morning routines. But if you want to take a good look at the range of ideas that this term can cover, here’s a Granddaddy-of-them-all list I found a while back — 100 Tips to Improve Your Life. This list is about a year old, but includes tips from over a dozen web sites on productivity, exercise, parenting, laundry, time management, and finding your car keys, among other things. Looking down the list will give you a good idea of the types of things that get included; a look at the URLs will show good sites that contain hundreds of other great tips.
So if you’re into simplifying your life, getting more done in a day, or just making things easier on yourself, go take a look at lifehacking. You’ll find some really helpful stuff! 
In a piece of Diggbait from Cracked.com, 
