published on: 2019-01-31
- Be outside.
- Ditch the car, ride a bike. Electric bikes are fun, too.
- Eat more mushrooms.
- Gift Julian is a Mermaid to someone you love. Or to anyone.
- Go fossil free.
- Reduce your screen time.
- Follow goats in sweaters.
- Study and practice a martial art.
- Try something you’ve never tried before.
- Try something again that you’ve tried before and didn’t like at the time.
- Submerge yourself in cold water to charge your immune system, boost metabolic and brain activity, and reduce inflammation and pain. Wim Hoff says so, and he’s right.
- Eat Jai Mix.
- Listen to the human-centered Boulder Tech Podcast.
- Read and support independent media, like The Correspondent and other sources that are rated as least biased.
- Get the help you may need to hire more inclusively.
- Host a screening of Gift
- Join the Consciousness Explorers Clubs.
- Learn more about permaculture and pattern language by reading books like Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
- See what you think about Yuval Noah Harari’s new book Homo Deus.
- Allocate at least 25% of your time spent on Spotify, iTunes, etc. to exploring Bandcamp or making a mixtape for someone (and, of course, follow @TheVibrarian). Don’t forget that you can always find new music to love.
- Listen to the latest dojo4 mixtape here: ColoraDOJOyride
- Don’t forget jazz.
- Don’t forget poetry.
- Don’t forget Tiny Desk Concerts. Here are some of our favorites:
- Wear your heart, or your spleen, on your sleeve.
- Patch yourself (or part of yourself) up.
- Follow more artists on instagram, like these:
- Look at more images of humans being born.
- Share more images of humans without a home, by becoming a contributor to Forgotten Neighbors.
- Make art. Or, at least, draw in some coloring books.
- Consider using psychedelics.
- Use your iPhone to travel more visually.
- If you can’t travel far, travel near.
- Develop a friendlier, more mindful relationship to your finances.
- Form new habits by picking something and doing it 200 days in this year. That’s barely more than half the days.
- Don’t sleep near your phone.
- Don’t let doing your taxes get you down: use BrassTaxes.
- Give your electronics a bedtime - try observing a digital sunset.
- Track the phases of the moon.
- Don’t wait to tell someone how you feel.
- Create (or join) a regular, standing date to spend time outside with other people. We favor a weekly, family hike followed by early dinner/happy hour.
- Take a walk.
- Slow down.
