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We can help you (individuals, organizations & governments) help others survive and thrive while being unselfish.

When Be Unselfish provides consulting services to individuals, organizations and governments and after working through how each of them can and should be unselfish, I help them work on how do we help others be unselfish and help other survive and thrive while we and they are unselfish?

What do we do? First, we share much of what we have with those who have less than we have. But not so much that we cannot survive. But many, many of us have more than we need to survive. Some of us have much, much more than we need to survive. Share with the rest of our family and friends. Share with others in our immediate community. If we still have more to share, share with other communities, with others in our country, and with others in the rest of the world.

What can and should we share? We can and should share our time to help care for others.* We can and should share our money and other resources (food, shelter, knowledge, and repairing other’s things).** We can and should share things we create.*** We can and should help create and/or support public goods (parks, schools, libraries, internet access, communication, roads, energy, services).**** We can and should help protect other creatures by protecting their habitat, preventing harm from pollutants, ensuring adequate food and water sources, and providing sanctuaries.***** We can and should help Earth by not adding to negative climate change, not polluting ground, water and air, and by restoring parts of Earth damaged by past and future human behavior.******

What can and should we do to ensure people are willing to stop being selfish? What can and should we do to increase people’s motivation to stop being selfish? We can and should help all people learn the benefits to themselves and others of not being selfish. We can do this through education and through how we live our lives.

We can and should help communities increase people’s motivation to stop being selfish. Communities (local, State, Country, global) can do this via leadership, persuasion, positive and negative incentives, laws, regulations, and administrative actions. We can and should help communities reduce/remove people’s motivation to be selfish. Can do this via leadership, persuasion, positive and negative incentives, laws, regulations, and administrative actions.

What can and should we do to ensure people are able to stop being selfish? What can and should we do to increase people’s ability to stop being selfish and reduce people’ ability to be selfish? We can do this through education and through how we live our lives.

We can and should help communities increase people’s ability to stop being selfish. Communities (local, State, Country, global) can do this via education, positive and negative incentives, laws, regulations, and administrative actions. We can and should help communities reduce/remove people’s ability to be selfish. Communities can do this via positive and negative incentives, laws, regulations, and administrative actions.

We can and should help all people learn how to survive/thrive without being selfish. Financial security is the first and most obvious. We can and should help people earn and use a living income from their work. Help people acquire and use savings or a retirement income (for example, Social Security, a pension, 401k savings, investments, savings accounts). If these are not available or sufficient, help people seek financial assistance from public sources (usually State or Federal sources). If none of these are available or sufficient, help people seek charity. Charities exist to provide help surviving. Again, if we have more than we need, we should share with others who have less than they need.

To survive and thrive, we can and should help people use the above resources and others to acquire and ensure good shelter, food, water, clothing, transportation, education, and protection from heat and cold. Important to help people acquire and ensure these necessities for both the near and long term.

To survive and thrive, we can and should help people learn as much as they can. Acquire initial education from pre-school to kindergarten to elementary school through high school. Continue to learn. For some people, this is a technical or trade education. For some, this is a college education. For some, this is learning from another person. For some, this is on-the-job learning. For some, this is self-taught learning. Any or all of these can be helpful. But learning is lifelong. There is always more to learn. Over people’s lifetime, the world changes. So, help people to know more. This requires continuous learning.

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* For example, Chris donates most of his time  to continuing Thrive! work with eMedia, books, sculpture, and Thrive! Park and Center.
** For example, Chris donates all payments for GChris sculptures he creates to the Thrive! Scholarship Fund he endowed at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). Chris funded the rebuilding of 1885 era farm buildings that were badly damaged. Chris will donate the Thrive! Center buildings to Thrive! Park. In the future, more of Chris' financial resources will go for public goods.
*** For example, Chris donates some GChris sculptures he creates to public spaces and individual people. Chris has written over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books that are available as free downloads or for purchase (royalties go to Thrive! Scholarship Fund).
**** For example, Chris created Thrive! Park and donated his land and buildings for the Park. Thrive! Park is now a 25+ acre public park owned by the Village of Nelson (WI) and located on Mississippi River bluffs.
***** For example, Chris created and donated Thrive! Park as a sanctuary for a wide range of wildlife.
****** For example, Chris, in partnership with public agencies, restored two bluff prairies in Thrive! Park, bringing the prairies closer to what they were in earlier times. Chris reduces his carbon footprint, to some degree, with an electric utility vehicle (used to maintain Thrive! Park and Center) and an electric car.