Hunter-Gatherer 21C: The Complete Two Score and Ten

1. Tell stories that fire the imagination.
2. Cook meals that taste good, are nutritious and use local ingredients.
3. Really notice the weather and predict what's coming next: rain or shine or snow.
4. Sleep easily; arise early.
5. "Warning; before beginning a program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health". Frank Forencich
6. Throw high, throw long, throw accurate.
7. Develop language and brachiate more.
8. Use eyes for distances beyond the screen: look long, look up. 
9. Experience cold and rain and wind and re-appreciate warmth.
10. Pace the seasons.
11. Remember what's important.
12. Re-discover fresh herbs.
13. Notice, observe and sense more.
14. Stare at night skies unpolluted by light.
15. Move: walk, jump, climb, run, squat.
16. Observe: animals, birds, insects...
17. Establish rituals: writing, building & crafting, reflecting
18. Swim: dive, float, swim a little underwater. Try open water.
19. Spend time with the tribe: love, frustrations, hugs, laughs and sheer craziness. Plan for winter. Stack logs, of course. Oh, stew the autumn fruit too.
20. Practise walking along a 3 by 4 beam. One inch above the ground. One foot above the ground. One yard above the ground. Don't fall off.
21. No elevators. No escalators. No PPT. No Facebook after the sun sets.
22. Play ball.
23. Sleep outside sometimes. Especially with 1, above.
24. Develop skills with hands: flint spear-heads, sure. Bake bread. Make your own notebooks. 
25. Keep the cave tidy. At all times.
26. Be self-reliant: learn how it works, from pensions to mowers.
27. Believe in magic.
28. Respect Planet Earth and allow it to breathe.
29. Explore new lands and walk their shores.
30. Eat some fruit, nuts and seeds. 
31. Spend more days without concrete, plastic and wi-fi.
32. Draw. On your very own cave walls.
33. Allow a little dirt.
34. Less gym desperation, more move with life.
35. Walk barefoot, in the cave and then on increasingly demanding terrains.
36. Read and share the great sagas. Start with Homer. "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend but to find a friend worth dying for"
37. Live light. Travel lighter. Meditate lightest.
38. Get thirsty. Drink deep and long.
39. Use peripheral vision.
40. "...to construct a narrative one must already live in the world, one must already dwell in the world and, in the dwelling, enter into relationships with its constituent parts, both human and non-human" Tim Ingold
41. Get strong.
42. Sweat while pacing through the woods and alongside the lakes.
43. Walk tall; sit tall; listen deep. 
44. Scan the horizon.
45. Evolve, change and learn from the masters.
46. Value wisdom over stuff, stillness over babble, investment over the quick-fix.
47. "Today our minds are almost entirely free to choose whatever sensory experience we can imagine; we can and do innovate to heart's content. But the price we pay is excruciating....living apart from habitat will never be a path to health, performance or spiritual happiness. We need our habitat to make us whole" Frank Forencich.
48. Develop mastery.
49. Build and leave a legacy.
50. Never let the fire go out.