100 REVOLUTIONS YOU CAN START NOW
- Madhukar Dama
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
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REVOLUTIONS OF FOOD
1. Cook one meal a day from scratch.
2. Stop buying anything with a barcode.
3. Plant one edible item—even in a pot.
4. Eat with your hands, on the floor.
5. Learn the name of every ingredient you use.
6. Refuse packaged snacks.
7. Trade your fridge space for grain storage.
8. Fast without fear.
9. Forage one wild food every season.
10. Sit and eat with elders, silently.
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REVOLUTIONS OF BODY
11. Walk barefoot for 30 minutes daily.
12. Use your own hands for cleaning, carrying, washing.
13. Stop wearing brands.
14. Sit on the floor. Squat often.
15. Use neem, clay, turmeric instead of lab-made cosmetics.
16. Quit deodorants and learn to smell your life.
17. Take sunbaths.
18. Give up gym subscriptions—carry water buckets instead.
19. Learn to identify 5 healing plants around you.
20. Grow your nails, trim with respect—not anxiety.
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REVOLUTIONS OF MONEY
21. Live without borrowing for anything.
22. Stop paying for convenience.
23. Track how much you spend on illusions each month.
24. Try a no-spend week every month.
25. Sell nothing, buy nothing, barter something.
26. Own only what you can repair.
27. Make a budget for time—not money.
28. Invest in seeds, not shares.
29. Learn to make do.
30. Replace gifting with growing or giving time.
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REVOLUTIONS OF TIME
31. Wake up with the sun.
32. Don’t look at a screen for the first hour.
33. Make idleness your teacher.
34. Reject the calendar when you can.
35. Replace urgency with rhythm.
36. Give up multitasking.
37. Do one thing for an hour that doesn’t “achieve” anything.
38. Sit with the moon.
39. Let boredom visit you.
40. Cancel one “important” appointment.
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REVOLUTIONS OF RELATIONSHIP
41. Sit in silence with your family.
42. Stop asking “what do you do?”
43. Refuse conditional love.
44. Tell one uncomfortable truth with care.
45. Hug longer.
46. Write a letter instead of sending a text.
47. Give up the need to win arguments.
48. Visit someone without a reason.
49. Stop correcting people who don’t need to be corrected.
50. Ask your child what they want to learn, not what they should learn.
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REVOLUTIONS OF CONSUMPTION
51. Don’t buy anything new for 30 days.
52. Watch no advertisements—at all.
53. Give up a major app for a week.
54. Delete everything you don’t use.
55. Let silence replace entertainment.
56. Don’t watch or read the news for one week.
57. Learn to sit still without reaching for a screen.
58. Sew a tear instead of replacing a shirt.
59. Break something expensive and feel nothing.
60. Stop following influencers—follow trees.
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REVOLUTIONS OF WORK
61. Refuse a promotion that steals your life.
62. Do nothing during one entire meeting.
63. Say no to urgency.
64. Refuse meaningless KPIs.
65. Learn to live with less income, more soul.
66. Unsubscribe from hustle culture.
67. Take a walk instead of replying to email.
68. Teach one skill without charging.
69. Give up your LinkedIn identity.
70. Let someone else win the rat race.
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REVOLUTIONS OF EDUCATION
71. Unschool your evenings.
72. Teach your children one truth that school hides.
73. Let a child lead your learning.
74. Learn a local language.
75. Learn to forget what doesn’t serve you.
76. Read a banned book.
77. Refuse competitive exams as the measure of worth.
78. Learn from silence.
79. Let your child ask the same question 50 times.
80. Tell your child: “You don’t need to impress me.”
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REVOLUTIONS OF LAND AND PLACE
81. Know the names of the birds near you.
82. Collect seeds. Share them.
83. Compost. Even if badly.
84. Eat from your land before importing from another.
85. Walk your neighborhood barefoot.
86. Map your local food sources.
87. Learn one ancient craft from your region.
88. Make mud your therapy.
89. Dig with a spade instead of scrolling.
90. Adopt one tree and visit it like family.
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REVOLUTIONS OF TRUTH AND MEANING
91. Admit you are lost.
92. Make peace with contradiction.
93. Stop performing spirituality.
94. Let grief speak.
95. Say “I don’t know” and feel free.
96. Stop trying to be a “better version” of yourself.
97. Practice no belief—only presence.
98. Keep one sacred space untouched by goals.
99. Live a week as if capitalism doesn’t exist.
100. Let nature, not fear, decide your next move.
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