21 little life upgrades. These are small purchases, shifts, and habits that you can make to improve your life this year.

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Sign Hustle Show, part of the entrepreneur podcast network, because your

9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.

One thing we're always asking, and I imagine you are too, is what little tweaks can we make to improve our lives and

improve our happiness.

York Ostrom called it the 1% infinity habit on the show years ago.

The idea that stacking up these small incremental

improvements and doing that consistently can lead to some impressive compound

returns over time. I'm going to be sprinkling in my own little life upgrades

throughout including the one purchase

that inspired this whole episode and include a bunch of suggestions from friends of the

Side Hustle Nation community as well.

These are roughly divided into three categories for the sake of

alliteration. Those are Hustle Health and Home. We're going to kick it off with

some Hustle slash Home Office slash work-related upgrades.

This is Steve over at my wifequiter job.com and a great new upgrade that I just bought not too

long ago is a portable teleprompter. Now I make a lot of YouTube videos because it takes me forever to film a video

unless I have it scripted I need a teleprompter but the problem is the one that I currently had is gigantic.

It's big and heavy, it goes on a

tripod, but then I found this one on Amazon that was super light. It came with its own

caring case and I recently just went to Maryland to visit my mom. I took the teleprompter along and I was able to film full YouTube videos on the fly and that has greatly improved my productivity.

Now I'm not sure which one Steve Bach, but the one I have is a Jacques Hopkins recommendation and that was the Parrot padcaster I think it's called. It was around 100 bucks, prices subject to change of course, and how it works is you load your script onto the parrot

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