In Melbourne CBD’s Flinders Street Station, there are escalators and stairs to get to and fro train platforms. Whether it’s rush hour or not, at least 90% of passengers who get off the train will leave the platform via the escalators. Even if it’s terribly crowded, people would queue up to get on the escalator. People who prefer to wait on the escalator would stand on the left side, while people who are rushing for time will walk or even run up the escalator on the right side. The escalators on the platforms are usually chock-full of people trying to get on the escalator to leave the platform.

All the while, there’s a flight of stairs RIGHT NEXT TO THE ESCALATOR. And it’s hardly used.

It’s funny how most people would rather queue up to get on the escalator than to walk up the stairs of the same distance to leave the platform. They would rather wait in line to get on the escalator than use the stairs (often during rush hour, the queue can get pretty long). I’m not talking about the elderly, pregnant women or those who have trouble getting up the stairs. I’m talking about fit young men and women who would rather queue up to get on the escalator, wait to reach the top and then run to leave the train station.

It’s a interesting observation how adverse people are to walking up a flight of stairs or two. I know, because I used to be one of them.

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I’m a sucker for productivity hacks. I enjoy listening to podcasts on productivity. Websites like Lifehacker and even Pinterest have become my evening guilty pleasure. Ever since I learned and mastered the very first productivity hack that is the Pomodoro technique, I’m always on a lookout for more even if some of them actually made me less productive.

But what the heck, it was all part of the fun of experimenting, eh? 😛

There’s a podcast on productivity hacks that I enjoy listening to, and that’s Straight and Curly by Carly Jacobs and Kelly Exeter. There’s an episode on popular productivity hacks that they’ve tried and hated, which I thought was very interesting. I thought I’d share the productivity hacks they mentioned that I’ve tried and what actually worked for me as well and what didn’t.

A number of the “hacks” mentioned in the podcast didn’t seem like they had anything to do with productivity (sleeping nude and brushing your teeth in the shower? Huh?) so I won’t be touching on them. I’ve added a few of my own too that I’ve tried and liked/disliked. When it comes to productivity methods and hacks, I’m all for it!

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I originally planned on posting this on Facebook but since there are more of you here on the blog, I thought I’d ask you for your opinion here instead. I’ve been wanting to get LASIK done on my eyes for a while now and was hoping I’d get it done this year. If you’ve had laser eye surgery before, I’d love to hear your story.

I’m short-sighted and am pretty much blind as a bat without my glasses. I’ve been wearing them since I was 13 years old. I started wearing contact lenses when I went to college and all through uni but when I started working, I was in front of the computer a lot, so I had to revert to glasses. I can’t wear contact lenses for more than a few hours anymore as I find them terribly drying on my eyes.

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