This is a guest post by Everett Bogue. It was supposed to post automatically this morning, but I guess I didn’t do that right. Oops. There may or may not be a post this coming Monday, since I’m busy doing awesome things at Con-G this weekend. Unfortunately, “awesome things” doesn’t include sleeping. Oh well.

Written by Everett Bogue | Follow him on Twitter.

We spend a lot of time talking, debating, thinking things over with our intellect, before we take actions.

But it’s important to remember that the actions are what actually speak.

With every object you choose not to buy, you are bringing about the salvation of the planet.

With every meaningless task you strike off your list of things you feel obligated to do, you are bringing about your own personal liberation.

None of this starts until you stop analyzing and start doing. Make a difference now, because every moment that slips by is bringing you one step farther away from your goals.

Here are 42 simple actions you can take now to bring about a little bit of freedom from the endless cycle of consumerism.

1. Stop doing something that means nothing to you.
2. Pay off a credit card, cancel it.
3. Move to a city that has decent public transportation.
4. Support an artist, instead of a corporation.
5. Up-cycle something into art.
6. Cook a dinner from local raw ingredients.
7. Write something positive about someone who you admire.
8. Share a dinner with friends.
9. Eat at a table.
10. Put 15 things in a box, get rid of it.
11. Explain to your family, friends, significant other that you plan to make a difference by becoming more minimalist.
12. Vow to make more time for your own projects.
13. Write a blog post about being minimalist.
14. Reclaim 15 minutes of your time.
15. Cancel one commitment
16. Donate all of the clothes you haven’t worn this year.
17. Donate all of the clothes you haven’t worn this week.
18. Think about the place you’ve always wanted to move to, but thought it was impossible.
19. Decide it’s not impossible.
20. Move.
21. Unfriend 15 people on Facebook that you don’t know.
22. Unfollow every person on Twitter who only tweet about themselves.
23. Put down the cellphone for one dinner.
24. Text someone you love them.
25. Unsubscribe to every newsletter from those non-profit you don’t care about that comes in your email.
26. Destroy your TV.
27. Turn off your Internet.
28. Write something about change.
29. Stop whining about what you can’t.
30. Spend 15 minutes in silence after you get off of work.
31. Instead of thrashing, smile.
32. Automate your bills.
33. Archive or trash all your unanswered emails.
34. Start something, finish it.
35. Research one way to automate a small amount of income.
36. Work towards putting that automation into effect.
37. Plant a tree.
38. Watch TED before bed instead of whatever is on TV.
39. Make a choice that makes you uncomfortable.
40. Turn off the lights.
41. Stop checking email.
42. Make a list of the 100 things that are most important to you, leave it in the comments.

You make your own decisions. You can choose to opt out of the perpetual cycle of busy consumption that is destroying our planet and your life.

You are the one who will save us.

Thank you for making a difference.

Everett Bogue blogs about living a simple minimalist existence at Far Beyond The Stars, he is the author of The Art of Being Minimalist. [full disclosure: affiliate link]

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