Here are tips/ideals that I try to live up to (in no particular order):
- Pick up skills that would be useful should the world's infrastructure collapse: metal working, wood working, or farming
- Have a garden and understand how food comes into existence
- Work your body by being productive
- Enjoy alcohol with the company of others
- Learn to cook, and then actually cook
- Buy simple clothes; avoid fads and designer labels
- Don't compare yourself to others, compare yourself to where you want to go
- Avoid cigarettes
- Cook for others
- Always pick up the dinner bill, and fight for it; going dutch is not love
- Fix things that you can
- Invest in tools, either your own collection or a community workshop
- Invest in yourself via education and skill building
- Invest in your community with time and love
- Learn to relax without guilt
- Dress the way you want to live
- Commute to work with a bike
- Focus on production rather than consumption
- Never eat alone while working
- Always help those around you when you can and able
- Understand and connect emotionally with your customer
- Avoid pre-prepared foods from the grocery
- Only use credit for convience
- Use a reliable car with good gas mileage
- Help your neighbors
- Everything is your job