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3 Life Hacks That Increased My Income

I’m not exaggerating when I say they changed my life

Matt Lillywhite
3 min readMar 30, 2022

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A lot of self-improvement advice on the internet is filled with BS.

Writers will tell you to wake up at 5am, meditate for three hours, and spend five hours at the gym. But seriously… who has time in their schedule for all of that? Probably not you.

Right? You have priorities. You need to pay bills, buy groceries, and work a 9-5 job to keep a roof over your head. You also live in the real world and don’t have time to listen to cliché self-help advice from a random stranger on the internet.

That’s why I want to share several life hacks that changed my life. Hopefully, they will do the same for you, too.

If You Don’t Get Hired For An Unpaid Internship, Show Up Anyway

Seriously… what’s the worst that can happen? They’re not going to pay you. So, you might as well show up to the workplace and network with all of the employees before security kicks you out.

This is a strategy I implemented last year when I didn’t get chosen for an unpaid internship at Google. I showed up at the company HQ, made friends with hundreds of employees, and got loads of new connections on…

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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