About LifeHack

LifeHack is the perfect program for anyone who wants to optimize their life. You'll get practical tools to tackle life's challenges and work towards your goals.

You’ll learn:

  • How to boost your mood

  • How to optimize the way you study (and stop procrastinating)

  • How to grow your confidence & self-esteem

  • And how to level up your social life

LifeHack takes around 30 minutes per week for 4 to 6 weeks. With the support of a personal e-coach and tips based on scientific research.  

What Students Say

I really like the very practical and hands-on take on improving my mental health and current situation. It makes me feel like I am more capable at handling the situation myself.

It helped me turn my perspective to a more positive outlook on my situation and helped me find what I want to change, gave steps to change it and tools on how to keep on track.

Many practical tips are given that you can use immediately so that it immediately feels useful.

A Glimpse Inside

Detailed Description of the Content

Methods & techniques

  • Goal-setting (SMART)

  • Mood: cognitive restructuring, increasing positive thoughts, behavioral activation (opposite action)

  • Stress: coping strategies (problem and emotion based coping), relaxation techniques

  • Healthier lifestyle (sleep hygiene, physical activity, balanced diet)

  • Study cycle method

  • Cognitive restructuring on procrastination

  • Focus and concentration techniques

  • Social skills (active listening, vulnerability, conflict resolution)

  • Assertiveness training

  • Social anxiety: cognitive restructuring, attention training, exposure

  • Self-esteem: defining strengths, self-compassion, exposure

  • Perfectionism: dealing with negative thoughts (exaggeration, meditation), fixed vs growth mindset

  • Impostor syndrome: setting realistic expectations, attributing correctly

Modules

Emotional well-being

  1. Boost your mood

  2. Stress less and learn to relax more

  3. ‘Healthify’ your lifestyle

Your Studies

  1. Study smarter, not harder

  2. Beating procrastination

  3. Boosting your focus & productivity

Social life & Relationships

  1. Level up your social life

  2. Express yourself & say ‘no’

  3. Overcome social anxiety

Self-esteem

  1. Grow your confidence & self-esteem

  2. Overcome perfectionism and fear of failure

  3. Imposter syndrome, begone

Insight in chapter titles per module

1. Boost your mood

  • Emotion interconnectedness

  • The thoughts gear

    • Identify the emotion

    • Find the thought

    • Check the facts

  • The behavior gear

2. Study smarter, not harder

  • Your own patterns

  • Understanding the study cycle

  • Study hacks

    • Be an active learner

    • Study spaced

    • The myth of multi tasking

3. Level up your social life

  • Know your needs

    • You gotta trait me well

    • Relationship metrics

    • How do you have fun?

  • Meet people

  • Strengthen and deepen your relationships

    • Listen actively

    • The power of vulnerability

    • Mending and repairs

4. Grow your confidence and self esteem

  • Defining self esteem

  • Know your strengths

  • Be compassionate with yourself

    • Become aware of your ‘inner critic’

    • Acknowledge and understand your inner critic

    • Reframe the critical thoughts

  • Feel the fear and do it anyway

    • Make it smaller

    • Plan and practice

    • Decide that you can handle it

5. Stress less and relax more

  • What is stress?

  • Becoming aware of stress

  • Using coping strategies

  • Relax more

    • Breathing exercise

    • Mindfulness

    • Do more of what you (already) enjoy

6. 'Healthify' your lifestyle (food, exercise, sleep)

  • Get a move on

  • Eating well & enjoy

  • Like sleeping beauty

7. Beat procrastination

  • The procrastination cycle

    • The task and the procrastination

    • The excuses our brain comes up with

    • The negative feelings

    • Negative thoughts

  • Breaking the cycle

  • Start starting

8. Boost your focus & productivity

  • Neatify your work-area

  • Get everything ready

  • Eliminate distractions

  • Zen your minds

  • Work in blocks

9. Express yourself & say 'no'

  • What is assertiveness?

  • Communication styles

  • Change the way you think

  • Set personal boundaries

  • Express your needs

    • Name your own feelings

    • Name the other person's behaviour

    • Name the consequences of that behaviour on yourself

    • Express what you would like from the other

10. Overcome social anxiety

  • What is social anxiety?

  • Begone, negative thoughts!

    • Trigger

    • Negative thoughts

    • Anxiety level

    • Evidence against the negative thought

    • A more realistic thought

  • Get out of your head

    • Define your ‘task’

    • Become aware of your focus

    • Redirect your attention

  • Fear, meet my face

    • Identify your negative thoughts

    • Plan your experiment

    • Define the evidence needed

    • Evaluate the results

11. Overcome perfectionism & fear of failure

  • What are fear of failure and perfectionism?

  • Deal with negative thoughts and feelings

    • Exaggerate your butt off

    • Meditation

    • The struggle switch

  • Focus on you, not others

    • Stop comparing yourself with the best

    • Pay less attention to what others think of you

  • Change your mindset

12. Impostor syndrome, begone!

  • What is imposter syndrome?

  • Talk about it

  • Move the goal post on competence

  • Learn to attribute rightly

    • Redefine the source of ‘failure’

    • Start owning your accomplishments