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Posted by17 hours ago

Miscellaneous

LPT Request. What do you find really easy, that other people find difficult? Aka, your super-power. And any tips you have to share in this area.

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Posted by12 hours ago

Food & Drink

LPT: leave your tip for delivery drivers under your doormat

I live in an apartment that is confusing to navigate and have fallen victim to not receiving several of my doordash/uber eats/ grubhub orders because it was placed at the wrong door. I finally had an aha moment and started leaving a cash tip underneath my doormat. I send a text to the driver ASAP letting them know “hey, your tip is under my doormat! (:” and my success rate of receiving my food has gone to 100%. Instead of quickly dropping the food at any door and driving away, they make sure it’s my door so that they get their tip.

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Posted by14 hours ago

Request

LPT: How can I politely, but firmly, tell my neighbor to train her dogs to shut the hell up?

My downstairs neighbor has two dogs that bark nonstop, for hours on end, while she's not home and it's driving everybody in this part of the apartment complex absolutely insane. One of them is still at it now as I'm typing this out. I'm fighting the urge to channel my inner neighbor from hell, but nobody wants to do that or deal with that so how can I go about this in a more civilized manner? Sometimes this goes on until 10pm and I have to be up early as hell.

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Posted by1 day ago

Productivity

LPT : First upgrade yourself before you upgrade your activity

This might seem trivial and obvious but I wonder how many of us are actually working on these things. If we are only working hard without actively improving our abilities to handle the challenges of our goals, our efforts will not bear fruit. Only when we work on improving ourselves to be more capable not just technically but even with things like having a proper diet and fitness, can we deal with more workload. Take up something like regularly exercising, making sure you get proper rest, or some Yoga or meditation regularly. These things will improve the quality of your overall mental and physical wellbeing and in turn enabling you to be competent to handle the more daunting challenges.

Let this post also become a moment for you to reflect and asking yourself "what steps am I taking to make myself more capable for the all the challenges in life?"

"If you upgrade your activity without upgrading yourself, you are bound to break down at some point." - SadhguruThought I'd share this quote since it really struck a chord in me.

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Posted by22 hours ago

Social

LPT: Agreeing as a family to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and "family member days" (example: "Mother's" Day) on a different day that's close to the actual one can really de-stress things and make them more relaxed.

Our family has benefited from doing this on the following weekend, even if a full week out. There's a few reasons why it really works for us, and perhaps some apply to others.

- For people who have 9-5 weekday work or school/after-school activities, the weekends are simply easier. Holding the event then can remove a lot of the rushed feeling of trying to celebrate something after getting home on a weekday.

- For annual events like Mom's Day, you can go out to a restaurant for the occasion and it won't usually be nearly as crowded with others celebrating that occasion.

- If the subject of the holiday has other family members that want to celebrate too, for example a mother with several adult kids living locally, this allows that member to get two separate days rather than one overloaded one. For us this is a biggie, as our aging mom tires quickly.

There are some possible drawbacks. Some people want their celebration to be on "the day of", rather than later. We manage this ourselves by ensuring to send the person a happy-day message on the "actual day", and include a reminder that the real party will be later.

And, there's the running joke of us accusing each other of going cheap on the Valentine's Day flowers or Easter candy by buying it at half price clearance. But, hey, what's a few wilted petals between happy family members anyway? :0)

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Posted by1 day ago

Productivity

LPT: When considering passions or directions in life, remember that ANY occupation gets way better after 3-5 years when you start getting good at it. You become more valuable to the other people in that community by how skilled and difficult to replace you become, also creating a sense of belonging

I know this might seem like common sense, but I see a lot of young people dissuaded from taking their lives in certain directions because of how shitty the first several years can be (aside from the expenses in things like active training time and cost and such)

Take engineering, tattooing, pilots, music, or martial arts. All of these things SUCK for most people in the first few years, because it requires a fundamental rewiring of the brain in many ways to understand the patterns, rhythms, principles and tricks of the trade. But once you get several years in and you look back and see how much better you've become, and how much further you can go, you can genuinely find a place of belonging in knowing the same things other skilled people know, the appreciation laypeople or other skilled people have for your skillset, and the sense of worth you can have by being able to contribute to the community in a way that many other people are unable to do.

"Sucking at something is the first step towards getting kinda good at something."

-Jake the Dog

EDIT: Maybe my wording was poor. Yes, I mean professions, not jobs. I thought that was a given lmfao. I shouldn't have said "ANY occupation" but come on, 5 years of working on an assembly line or fast food kitchen is not going to increase the negotiable value of your skillset. 5 years of working at something where you can still learn new things after 5 years is what I'm talking about. That's why I used the examples of "engineering, tattooing, pilots, music, or martial arts" things where it takes a while to learn new things, and people with those skillsets are not easily replaceable.

Maybe I should have titled it:

LPT: When considering passions or directions, choose something that allows you to still be learning new things after 5 years, because that is not easy to replace and will make you implicitly valuable in different ways to your workplace, community, and create a sense of intrinsic self-worth, because you can pass on skills to others.

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