How to Improve Your Karma – 20 Tips to Attract Good Karma

You want to improve your karma and actively try to collect new karma points? Then you've come to the right place! We live in a time in which we have to deal with dozens of massive societal and ecological problems that we ourselves have created.

Nobody has to save the world alone - but we can all contribute every day to making life on earth much more pleasant for all living beings. Whether we simply hold the door open for someone or introduce a friend to a new, future-oriented lifestyle.

In this article I would like to show you what karma is and how you can do something for your karma on a social or ecological level in everyday life. Let's go!

Here you can find a short overview in advance:

1. Do not throw away food
2. Go donate blood
3. Give honest compliments
4. Make your garden a paradise
5. Repair something instead of throwing it away
6. Eat a plant based diet
7. Use green electricity
8. Adopt a dog from the shelter
9. Store local
10. Take a vacation at home
11. Start a CleanUp
12. Give someone a good recommendation
13. Consciously avoid waste
14. Support food sharing
15. Appreciate your clothes
16. Teach someone something new
17. Refrain from disposable products
18. Actively support other people
19. Forgive other people for a bad deed
20. Be grateful for what you have

Definition: What is karma anyway?

In dictionaries, karma is commonly referred to as "the action determining the form of a person's rebirth, or the present destiny conditioned by past action". designated.

This is a Buddhist principleThe first is that every action has a consequence that can be seen in a person's present life or even after his or her possible rebirth.

"Karma is not a menu. You get served what you deserve."

Proverb (more at Karma Quotes)

From my point of view, above all human values such as appreciation, respect, helpfulness, solidarity or gratitude. Just positive traitsthat each of us would call human. Any actions that contradict these good values will in turn jeopardize your karma account.

In short: You will reap what you sow.

20 tips: How can I improve my karma?

So we are responsible for what happens to us in life. Then let's not dither for long. Maybe you have something to make up for or just try to be very basic, a to become a better person.

Either way, it is a wise decision. The following ideas will definitely help you improve your karma. Have fun with the implementation!

1. Don’t Waste Food

According to the UNEP Food Waste Index Report in 2022 were around 1.05 billion tons of food produced thrown away. At the same time, however, around 9 percent of all people on earth go hungry.¹

So it seems only logical that you can improve your karma, by appreciating the food on your plate - and its cultivation and transportation process.

So make a conscious effort to Reduce food waste. For example, by changing your Consciously plan your shopping for the coming week. Then stick strictly to your shopping list to avoid spontaneous purchases that could later end up in the garbage can in excess.

I can also recommend the book "Don't throw me away - the food savings book" (is available here*) to your heart.

2. Donate Blood

Blood is unique and not artificial or replaceable by other substances. Therefore you are most likely to save the lives of others through your blood donationwho may be desperately looking for your blood.

Find out more with the help of a sustainable search engine about the nearest blood donation opportunities in your area.

Even more karma points: Do you already have an organ donor card? If you have a fatal accident, you automatically give permission for your organs to be used to save other people's lives. You can get it from your health insurance company or the pharmacy around the corner, for example.

3. Give Genuine Compliments

It has a positive effect on your own karma if you occasionally give other people open, honest and heartfelt about why they are so wonderful. Affection that comes from the bottom of the heart releases beneficial happiness hormones.

However, you should only give compliments in measured doses and only if they are meant in all seriousness. This way you will not only impress your conversation partner, but also also make yourself happy.

4. Turn Your Garden into a Paradise

You can also earn karma points by Naturalness skim! For example in your own, preferably sustainable garden. Avoid gray gravel roads on your own house and create the basis for a paradise full of life with chirping birds, buzzing insects and many other animals.

By providing them with nesting opportunities and food supply, you can improve your karma - and quite incidentally the restful birdsong and bustle in the garden from the Hammock observe

Just have a look in the plant trade or here online at the Horstmann nursery* for native plants. Real bird and insect magnets are, for example, the Flourberry (is available here*), which Sloe (is available here*) and the One-toothed hawthorn (is available here*).

Of particular ecological value are also Wild corners in the garden with native flowers and perennials. For example, scatter these wildflower seeds* for Bees, ladybugs, butterflies and hoverflies on a lean soil.

Tip: You can find out exactly how to create a real garden paradise in the detailed article on the Creation of a bird friendly garden.

5. Repair Instead of Replacing

Stop! Before you throw your shoes in the trash can, take them to the cobbler again. They live from the repair and can fit you with a new sole for a few euros, for example.

And if your smartphone is broken again: simply have it repaired instead of buying a new one. Respect the valuable, rare earths in the device - and the effort required to obtain them. Because respect and appreciation create karma points!

Fittingly I can offer you the Book "Culture of Repair by Wolfgang M. Heckl (is available here*) recommend.

6. Eat a Plant-Based Diet

I really can not think of a more meaningful actthan the personal switch to a plant-based diet. Your eating habits will then no longer require animals in the Factory farming are kept in cramped cages, mistreated and finally killed.

Also at the Deforestation of the rainforests for the production of soy meal as animal feed and for the creation of pasture land, you are no longer involved. This in turn counteracts the global species extinction towards. And because so more plants available for our direct consumption you are also helping to keep the Stop world hunger.

The list of benefits could basically go on forever! Take a look at the following article Reasons for veganism on! You will bathe in karma points if you take the plunge.

Tip: If you're not yet inspired and motivated enough to start eating a conscious plant-based diet, be sure to check out these vegan documentaries take a look! And you'll also find a good introduction (theory + recipes) with the book "Vegan nutrition for beginners"that you get here*.

7. Use Green Energy

The electricity in your household should ideally come from sustainable sources such as Wind, water or solar energy and not from CO2-emitting coal or radioactive nuclear power.

The Switch from a conventional to a green electricity tariff on the basis of renewable energies is really easy and improves your karma. Above all, because neither people risk their lives underground for your electricity, nor are settlement areas or natural landscapes destroyed. You also make the dangerous storage of nuclear waste for thousands of years superfluous.

In five minutes you can Make a green electricity comparison here now* and change.

8. Adopt a Dog from a Shelter

Instead of buying an animal from a kennel, you can simply visit the local animal shelter and adopt a dog, cat or mouse there. In this way you relieve the animal shelter and can make another living being extremely happy.

Or you can get involved Volunteer at the animal shelter. Support is always needed - whether you're walking, stroking or tidying up. Alternatively, you can also Adopt dog from animal shelteras I have done.

The book "The second chance: dogs with a past" (is available here*) is definitely the ideal support for a good start.

Tip: At Help animals in everyday life you will learn many more things you can do for wildlife.

9. Buy Local

Bad karma is, among other things, the result of selfish actions. We humans tend to do this, To take the path most convenient for ourselves. This is why, for example, we love to order fashion online from large corporations or buy fruit and vegetables from huge supermarket chains.

However, if you want to improve your karma, you should shop at local fashion stores and small fruit and vegetable vendors. This is the easiest way to support the people in your region. The personal conversation with them makes your purchase a special experience.

10. Take a Staycation

Surely the vacation in Germany is also already a logical Conclusion from the Corona pandemic! However, not only in these precarious times, but quite generally, you should more recreation time in our beautiful country schedule.

In this way, you avoid climate-damaging flights by plane and at the same time can save Discover local nature for little money. Just let the most extraordinary destinations in Germany inspire to earn even more karma points.

At the latest at the thought that 90 percent of people on our planet have never seen the inside of an airplane²you should understand what a comfortable life situation you are in to even have the chance to get on an airplane. You can also use the tips from my book "Sustainable travel for beginners" (is available here*) to travel in a more environmentally conscious way.

11. Start a Cleanup Initiative

People who throw garbage into the environment will lose many karma points. Because they contribute to the fact that About one million seabirds and 135,000 marine mammals die each year due to our plastic mania..³

Do better and create good karma by organize a Beach CleanUp or regularly Plogging operate. You collect the garbagethat others have made. This makes for a more aesthetic environment, saves animal lives and makes people proud.

Tip: Also on vacation you can collect garbage and make provisions for your own destiny. You are welcome to use our Map for worldwide CleanUpsto find a suitable organizer at your destination!

12. Give Someone a Good Recommendation

Recommendations are personal, trusting and in most cases also very helpful. If you want to improve your karma, you should regularly make one or two good recommendations to other people based on your own experience.

This can be, for example, a good book, a wonderful movie, a stylish restaurant and even a new job be. Or how about making a positive rating for a specific provider or supplier on the Internet in order to recommend the offer to other Internet users?

There really is no limit to the possibilities with this advice. Here are a few more personal book recommendations from me for you:

13. Avoid Waste

Collecting litter is good! It's even better if you don't let the garbage accumulate in the first place. Because even if the rumor is circulating, we Germans are absolutely no recycling world champions. Large quantities are in fact shipped abroad every year. This waste is considered recycled and unjustifiably boosts the recycling rate.

For example, to improve your karma, you can get a large stainless steel water bottle (is available here*) and drink tap water from it in future. You no longer need plastic bags eitherif you simply carry a cloth bag or a Backpack made from marine litter* go shopping.

In these continuing articles you will learn much more about the Zero Waste Lifestyle experienced

• Zero Waste for Beginners
• Living plastic-free - Here's how
• Plastic waste documentaries
• Zero Waste at the Festival
• How the plastic waste destroys the environment

Book Tip: For sure then my first Book "Plastic-free for beginners something for you! Get it here*.

14. Support Food Sharing Initiatives

You can prevent food waste not only in your own household, but in other businesses as well. As a food sharer:in you rescue food from bakeries, cafes and restaurantswho would otherwise throw their remaining but still extremely tasty goods in the garbage can.

You would not believe how much Money you save with it and how many neighbors and people in need you will make happy.

Tip: If you also want to earn karma points as a Foodsharer:in, you can read about it in the post about the Food Sharing about how exactly this works.

15. Appreciate Your Clothes

Fashion from sustainable fabrics is a good step. But it's no use if we continue to consume without restraint. By being more sustainable and respectful with your clothes, you'll save an incredible amount of virtual water and a lot of packaging waste - and you'll spare the natural resources of the earth.

At the same time, you free people, among other things, who have to sew together cheap fashion in dirty, cramped factory halls (Documentary recommendation: The True Cost - The price of fashion*), from their constraints.

With fashion items, for example, pay attention to the Fairtrade seal and consciously buy second-hand fashion from time to time.

Tip: In the detailed articles on the Slow Fashion Movement and Tips for more durable fashionyou will find out exactly how to be conscious about your clothing.

16. Teach Someone Something New

When was the last time someone taught you something? I am sure you are still grateful to that person today. You can also do many things that others cannot. So set yourself the goal of teaching someone else something new.

For example, you can teach your son, daughter, wife, or husband how to play the piano or teach a particular foreign language. You can just as easily show a colleague how to work with the new office software or write a good advertising copy.

In any case, it is important for karma that you help others to develop personally. At the same time, you are automatically promoting your own development.

Tip: At Help people for more inspiration. You can also find out more in another article, why it makes us happy to help others.

17. Ditch Disposable Products

Who leaves trash in the environment, can never be sure what will happen to it afterwards. Maybe a sea turtle dies from your six-pack ring, which merely helped you carry the beer to the beach for a few minutes. Or maybe a young bird gets your Plastic straw because his parents used him as nesting material.

That is everything has already happened - and creates bad karma for the (unconscious) perpetrators.

So if you want to collect karma points and not lose them, you should prefer to avoid such scenarios in advance. Avoid unnecessary waste by using reusable alternatives, such as glass straws (is available here*).

18. Actively Support Others

You can help people indirectly by vegan diet and contribute on a daily basis to the Stop climate change. But people can also benefit from your help in a direct way.

For example, take over a Reading sponsorshipto read books to children on a regular basis. Or simply listen to a friend and help them to read. Assistanceif something is bothering him/her.

Or how about giving a homeless people just bring some fruit and something to drink from the store outside the mall? It's also the little things that improve your karma. Read the article for dozens of examples of good deeds in everyday life inspire.

Tip: In the same way can also animal welfare organizations constantly need your support! This can be a financial donation or active support on site.

19. Forgive Someone for a Past Mistake

Nobody is perfect. We have all done something bad to someone that we regret. This is also how you should look at it if you have been hurt by another person.

By forgiving her or him, you are doing something good - for the other person, for your soul and for your karma.

20. Be Grateful for What You Have

It costs absolutely nothing to be grateful for what you have - or for what others give you. Gratitude simply changes everything for the better. I can only warmly recommend this gratitude journal* recommend. Write down what you are particularly grateful for on the day in question.

Make others laugh or make positive things happen in their lives. Take revenge when someone has done something good to you - and simply write a postcard to your loved ones again.

Frequently asked questions about karma

Collect karma points through human behavior

Thoughts shape your words. Words shape your actions. Actions form your habits. Habits form your character. And character shapes your destiny.

The The principle of karma is relatively simple. And it is just as easy to do something for your karma every day, even casually. Behavior that is human from the bottom of your heart is the key.

"Every hunter becomes a hare one day, sooner or later, because eternity is long."

Wilhelm Busch (more under Karma Quotes)

Finally, I would like to recommend the book by the world-famous yoga master Sadhguru. It is called "Karma: How you can shape your own destiny" (is available here*) and is a great guide to a happier life.

After reading this article, you now know the best tips for improving your karma. Do you have any questions or other ideas for collecting even more karma points? Then please write me a comment!

Stay human,

PS: Are you bothered by a grievance in our society that you want to change for the better? Then simply start a petition to do something about it. At Start online petition you will now find out how it works!

References:

1. Federal Statistical Office: 735 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat, available at https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Thema/landwirtschaft-fischerei/Unterernaehrung.html. [20.02.2025]. ↩︎
2. Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND): Luftverkehr - Klimaschädlich und hoch subventioniert, available at https://www.bund.net/themen/mobilitaet/infrastruktur/luftverkehr. [20.02.2025]. ↩︎
3. Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. (NABU): Plastic waste and its consequences. https://t1p.de/tykc. [20.02.2025]. ↩︎