If your meditation practice has become just one more thing to check off the to-do list—or if you’ve been trying meditation but haven’t found it as calming as you’d hoped—it ...
Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged stress. Given the nonstop barrage of stressors these past few months, many of us ...
As long as I can remember, my fear of flying always involved absurd “what if?” scenarios. What if the emergency doors open and sucks everyone out of the plane? What ...
Let’s dial the time machine back just a few years to 2016, when we told you guys about this 15-minute morning workout from Darebee.
It’s a simple circuit workout, three rounds ...
If you’ve been using GIFs to chat with others during Zoom meetings, you might notice that functionality has disappeared.
Zoom has temporarily disabled its integration of the GIF platform Giphy in ...
If you’ve taken up running recently, you probably find it exciting to learn what you’re capable of. But if the only goal you know is running continuously for three miles—the ...
For today’s classic at-home workout, we’re looking all the way back to 2011, when Lifehacker created its own workout programme on a now-defunct platform called Fleetly. It offered four workouts ...
Stress is one of those things we all have to deal with. But what if you could use stress to your advantage?
Brad Stulberg, coauthor of the book Peak Performance: Elevate ...
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and a guide to using its waters to reflect on and improve your life.
This week’s selection ...
Between hygge, the Danish concept of coziness, and Sweden’s lagom, which encourages living a balanced life, there are plenty of buzzy Nordic lifestyle methods that proponents claim will make you ...
In the war against sand, humans can never win. And the sooner you square yourself to the fact that going to the beach is an inherently messy process, the more ...
This past week, during a particularly stressful day, I do what I always do when I want to complain to someone I know will listen: I called my dad. I’m ...
Have we all been neglecting our fingernails? Okay, maybe just some of us? These slabs of keratin do a lot for us, so here’s how to keep them clean and ...
Your Google Home is a great device for requesting the weather, setting alarms, controlling your smart home or even creating a network of connected speakers, but you might not have ...
The great thing about a vacuum is that it’s so versatile. Want to get the daily detritus of life out of your carpets? Your vacuum is perfect for that, obviously. ...
Acknowledging the positives is a way to remember all that is good about life. However, as with everything, there can be too much of a good thing. This includes what ...
Living in the pandemic means not knowing what the next day will bring, and not knowing how or when it will all end, and whether or not our loved ones ...
Being stuck at home has inspired many of us to try our hands at baking. As a result, there are now reports of yeast shortages in many countries because the ...
Do you remember those idyllic days, back in March or so, when we all realised we’d have a lot more time on their hands? Office workers would be working from ...
One of the struggles of working from home—something many more of us are doing for the first time—is a constant pressure to be present. Your Slack dings, and you feel ...
As we learned pretty early on in the year, what starts out as a quick check of what’s going on ...
I expected the pandemic to have many surprising ramifications, but one thing I could not have predicted was for my ...
I always say I’m a “savoury breakfast eater,” but the truth is, I rarely eat breakfast at all. For better ...
Just a few months ago, we would have gone out for brunch with our friends, made a quick stop at ...
As long as I can remember, my fear of flying always involved absurd “what if?” scenarios. What if the emergency ...
Packages in my household are opened the second they arrive, so keeping the holiday gifts separate from standard packages this ...
If you’ve taken up running recently, you probably find it exciting to learn what you’re capable of. But if the ...
Most of the time, using your face to unlock your phone is a seamless way to access your device. However, ...
Jealousy and envy are two of the most common—yet negative and useless—emotions many of us have. For a long time, ...
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that most people are capable of handling far more than they thought. During ...
A lot of us have had to put together new daily routines now that we’re working from home, parenting from ...
Acknowledging the positives is a way to remember all that is good about life. However, as with everything, there can ...
By now we all know that new year “detoxes” and “resets” don’t detox or reset anything. Depending on which you ...
Even if you weren’t a plant person before the pandemic, you may have gotten into having some greenery around your ...
This is not an easy time to be optimistic. Back in March and April—when most people had only started to ...
Categorizing things can hel us humans process them, and personality traits are no exception. We tend to think of these ...
The pandemic has been rough on everyone, especially when it comes to maintaining connection with the people we love. Luckily, ...
Feeling anxious? Even if this moment is a non-anxious moment for you, chances are good that at some point in ...