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Unselfish
provides consulting services to individuals, organizations and
governments, it starts with working on you yourself can and
should be unselfish and survive while being unselfish. Just as
you are helping other people to survive and thrive, so must you.
For you yourself to survive and thrive,
you need financial and other resources, and you need to learn.
To survive and thrive, if you can you earn and use a living
income from your work. If you can, you acquire and use savings
or a retirement income (for example, Social Security, a pension,
401k savings, investments, savings accounts). You may seek
financial assistance from public sources (usually State or
Federal sources) if other financial resources are not available
or sufficient. You may seek charity if none of these are
available or sufficient. Charities exist to provide help
surviving. You may seek financial help from family and friends.
To survive and thrive, you can 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 acquire and ensure these
necessities for both the near and long term.
To survive and thrive, you should learn
as much as you can. Acquire initial education from pre-school to
kindergarten to elementary school through high school. Continue
to learn. For some, 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 your lifetime, the world changes. So, you must know
more. That requires continuous learning.
For you yourself to survive and thrive,
you must also take care of yourself. Being unselfish does not
mean you stop taking care of yourself. Take good care of
yourself. Failing to take good care of yourself is bad for you
and would prevent you from helping take care of others. But do
not take care of yourself at the expense of others. And, most
importantly, do take good care of others as well. “Others”
include other people, other creatures, and home Earth. By taking
good care of yourself and others and by not hurting others, you
stop being selfish. You are unselfish. You survive and thrive.
You help ensure a surviving and thriving future for all.
By doing all of these, you can survive
and thrive while being unselfish. Key is to not do any of these
in a way that harms other people, other creatures, and Earth.
You can and should thrive while being
unselfish. Thriving while being unselfish follows the same path
and the same behaviors. Thriving does not require great wealth.
Thriving can be achieved without taking from others, harming
other creatures, and harming Earth.
Thriving is when you perform well, are
well-off (financially), are well nourished, are well housed, are
well protected (exposures, crime), are well educated, are
physically and mentally well (people), are growing/developing
well, are living within good habitat, are physically well
(plants, animals, environment), are not vulnerable, are
producing personal and public goods, are living within a stable,
positive climate, and are sustainable. To clarify “well-off
(financially)” does not mean great wealth. It means enough
financial resources to live reasonably well for a lifetime.
Beyond that, financial resources should be shared with others.
Thriving is more than being what was
detailed above. Thriving is much about feeling good about
yourself and caring about and for everything else.
To ensure all thrive, including
ourselves, you can and should take the path to, believe in, and
envision a thriving future for all, including ourselves. That is
what thriving is. That is what Thrivism is. Thrivism is hopeful
path. Inspiring vision. Positive belief system. Positive way of
life. A Thrivist helps build and sustain a thriving future with
and for all – each person, all people, all other creatures, and
Earth.
Thriving is when you strive for and achieve higher level of
positive motivation and ability (including knowledge). Higher
level of positive behavior. Strive continuously and
simultaneously with the best combination of independence and
interdependence in joint pursuit of surviving and thriving. Care
enough about yourself, everyone else, everything else, and
Earth. Care enough about today and both near- and long-term
future. Strive on a path through complex world and toward
thriving. As you strive and grow and as you are unselfish, you
survive and thrive and so does everyone, everything, and Earth.
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