The $5 Bag Addition: Always Powered, Never Stranded!

The Pouch of Power: How YOU can Outsmart YOUR Forgetful Brain

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Welcome to The Laziness Digest. A weekly newsletter where I share my experiences of living a highly productive life through intentionality and use of your technology.

Have you ever traveled somewhere and forgot to pack your charging cord for your phone?

Isn’t it frustrating?

Now you have to ask people you are traveling with for a charger, or worse, you have to wait till your friend’s phone charges their phone and then you get it.

You may be thinking, I will just not forget to pack it before I leave.

Now I am no crazy astrologer predicting your future but what I am sure about is that you will forget it and you will hate yourself in the moment.

It’s okay tho.

We are bound to forget to pack a small cable in the midst of a 100 other things we need while we are traveling.

Here is how I always have every charging cord available to me no matter what.

I got this small pouch.

It was 5$.

Now it looks simple but here is what I did different.

I bought a 2nd cable for all my devices I use.

USB C - Mac and iPad

Lightning- iPhone and Airpods

Apple Watch cable

Magnetic cable for my water bottle

Micro usb b- I don’t know why but some products still ship with this port.

Alongside all the cables I have an extra wall brick + a Magsafe power bank for the iPhone.

I keep all of it in my pouch organized.

And the pouch stays in my bag 24/7.

Now anytime I am traveling, I put all my tech into my bag and go.

I don’t have to think about packing any cables.

Everything is just ready to go.

This is not a hack or smart trick.

It is like automating a thing we tend to forget a lot.

Now the the cables will differ for you but you get the point.