You’re wondering what this site is all about?
Maybe trying to figure out who I am and where you’ve me before?
I have no idea, most likely, but this page is here just in case you still would like to know a little bit more about me!
Hi, and welcome to Life Hacks for Living Well! My name is Nick Thacker,and for whatever reason, you’ve clicked through to this page to read about me or this site. To make this easier for you, I’ll split this up into sections, depending on how you’ve found me:
I’m no expert in productivity or motivation studies, and I have no advanced degrees in hacking life or optimizing it to suit your lifestyle. But–and this is a big but–I’m not just writing about lifestyle and life hacking because it’s an interest of mine, it’s something that I’m actually doing.
If you read a post about how to increase your motivation, it’s something that I’ve studied and figured out by actively doing it. On this website you’ll find everything from hacking your kitchen to produce more affordable, 5-star meals, how to increase your productivity, get more done at work or at home, and many more tips and tricks to help you hack your life. Feel free to bookmark this site, or if you’re not that old-school, just subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up-to-date with the life hacks. If you’re in-between old-school and trendy, just grab the life-hacking emails…
I’ve been an entrepreneur since a young age, and most recently have run a small-business marketing media and web design company called Higher Calling Media (website currently offline). We specialized in web design and marketing materials to help businesses, organizations, and individuals in the Central-Texas area stay productive and motivated, and if you’re interested in seeing some of our work, send me an email. I can also provide references upon request.
Currently, I’m working at a great company called faithHighway, as a consultant for churches–we build websites and also prepare marketing collateral for Christian churches. I’ve been there for about a year, and I’m loving it so far.
Additionally, I run a small side project called LoopingWorship.com, a resource for worship leaders and church musicians to learn about using loops in worship. It’s a growing, vibrant community, and it’s pretty cool to be a part of something that I feel that I have an impact in.
My experience includes the above jobs/projects, as well as a Music degree from Texas State University with a minor in Business, focus in Entrepreneurship Studies. I speak English pretty darn well, and am just about fluent in Spanish. I can speak broken Franglish as well, and would love to learn Rongorongo.
Currently, I’m serving as the Director of Music at a GREAT church called The Journey United Methodist Church in Kyle, Texas. We have an upbeat, contemporary liturgical-style service on Sunday mornings, and yes–you are welcome to check it out!As such, I’m a closet singer/songwriter (or at least a songscreamer and messer-upper), and I’ve written a few worship tunes that my wife tells me are pretty good. When I overcome my fear of being laughed off the blogosphere, I may even post them.
Since this is a lifestyle blog about life hacking, optimizing your life, and getting more done, I’d love for you to drop me a line sometime and let me know what you’d like help with.
Secondly, back to the whole “lifestyle” thing: I believe that writing and reading is a necessary and obligatory thing that we all must do, and I think that we should all enjoy it. As such, I’ll be posting about lifestyle, life hacking, productivity, motivation, and other related books, as well as interesting tips, tricks, and ways to improve your interest in reading.