App Hacks
This app helps you to stay up to date with car maintenance and recalls.
What is Drive.
Eating this releases endorphins into the brain (and also helps with cardiovascular health!) Endorphins are known to decrease levels of both stress and pain. All of these reasons and chemicals combine to make people happy when they eat this
What is dark chocolate!
This trick can help save space in your bag and create another purpose for that winter jacket.
What is putting your puffy jacket into a pillow case! Comfy pillow and saves space in your bag!
This vegetable is a great substitute for rice and pizza crust and can be substituted for potatoes to make mashed potatoes healthier!
What is cauliflower!
Hate having frizzy hair while on the go? This everyday product can be used to fix this!
What is hand cream! Take a very little bit of hand cream and smooth this onto your hair!
Through this app you can book doctors appointments and have live video chats with doctors.
Babylon (telus health)- can book doctors appointments right through the app and video chat the doctors
Doing this for 20 to 25 minutes will lighten your mood naturally but there are also other ways to help get this important vitamin level up to increase happiness
What is go outside to soak up some sunshine. The human body produces vitamin D when exposed to the sun's rays. Research suggests that people who are deficient in the vitamin are more likely to be depressed, anxious, and tired. Step into the sunshine for 20 to 25 minutes of sunlight to lighten your mood naturally or talk to your doctor about taking vitamin D OR eat vitamin D rich foods liked mushrooms.
This trick allows helps beat jet lag when travelling from Canada to Asia
What is going to bed an hour early for a few nights before you travel; this minimizes shock once you land!
Holding this between your teeth can help improve your mood and make you feel just a bit happier!
What is a pencil! Holding a pencil between your teeth activates the same muscles as smiling and makes your brain think you are smiling and happy!
This liquid gold colored food can be applied to your lips to help with dryness
What is honey! Put some honey on the back of a spoon and apply to your lips. Cover it with saran wrap and let it sit for 5 mins. Goodbye dry chapped lips!
This free app helps you to build a budget and is named after a plant.
What is Mint.
This "spice" has natural antidepressant qualities among other amazing health benefits for your body and health
What is turmeric! Turmeric also helps fight against chronic low level inflammation which is proven to be a leading cause to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases and illnesses! You can get fresh, spice or pills (the most powerful)
This app allows you to decipher almost any international language in an instant with your camera that scans and translates written text, then presents the translation in context, right on your phone screen.
What is Word Lens. This is a camera-enabled app that instantly scans and translates written text, then presents the translation in context, right on your phone screen.
Doing this before an exam, job interview, important presentation etc. can help decrease stress and increase confidence
What is doing a power stance! This is actually backed by science!! (some of you who watch Grey's Anatomy may have also seen this done in a few episodes before a challenging surgery to decrease stress and increase confidence)
This item of clothing can help with reducing frizz if you use it to dry your hair
What is a t-shirt! Towels cause frizz, drying with a cotton t-shirt will keep frizz away!
This app helps with storing your photos.
google photos- unlimited free cloud storage to help free storage on your phone because once they are uploaded to google photos you can choose to have them auto deleted. also edits photos and videos for you
When you don’t get enough, you struggle with mood swings and aggravation. However, if you get too much you're less productive. This is something that there is a "sweet spot" for...
What is sleep! While it’s recommended that people get seven-nine hours of sleep every night, it turns out there’s a sweet spot for the right amount of sleep to put you at your happiest. A recent survey found people who identified as “perfectly happy” got seven hours and six minutes of sleep every night... try making that happen consistently!
Doing this will allow you to access maps and planned spots you want to see without wifi or wasting your data while travelling
What is using Google maps to save offline maps! Use Google Maps even when you don’t have data. When you are online, find a point of interest (like your hotel) and load its profile. Tap the three dots in the top right corner, then click “Save offline map.” When offline, locate the place in the Google Maps app under “Your Places.”
Doing this boosts your immune system and lowers stress, reduces pain and prevents heart disease; it is one of nature’s best medicines for both mental and physical health.
What is laughing! Have yourself a hearty laugh! How to laugh when you’re just not feeling the funny? Play with a dog, watch stand-up comedy, indulge in a couple of viral videos. (toddler, dogs, cats videos) Try a laughter yoga class. Studies show laughing in groups beats laughing alone and can help to turn “forced laughter” into actual laughing.
A few drops of this eye product and it can give your clumpy dried out mascara tube new life (and save money because you have made it last longer!)
What is contact solution (or saline solution)
This website is based on career-search science and designed by people who really get it. To provide training and tools you need to succeed in your job search. And its free!
What is fullyprepped.ca
This is a core need for psychological wellbeing. It can help us build confidence and a sense of self-efficacy. It can also be a way of connecting with others too,’ says Vanessa King, positive psychology expert at Action for Happiness.
What is learning! Vanessa King, positive psychology expert at Action for Happiness says ‘As human beings, we have a natural desire to learn and progress. Psychologists call it mastery.’
This app has helped thousands of travelers track prices and book trips around the world. This app will monitor prices for you and you can book in just a few taps. It is possible to save up to 40% when you track your trip with this app.
What is Hopper!
Substituting this spice in your coffee rather than cream and sugar has fewer calories and numerous health benefits: It can reduce triglycerides, LDL (i.e., bad cholesterol) and blood sugar levels. It also contains antioxidants to boost the immune system and may even improve brain function.
What is cinnamon
What product should be dabbed on pressure points?
What is perfume/Cologne! The correct application- dab vs. rub and on pressure points