WHAT IS THRIVING?

“Thriving” means being able to see an event as an opportunity, as opposed to a crisis. “Thriving” is a chance to tap your creativity and to be resourceful. “Thriving” means summoning courage, honoring your own values, deepening your character, reinventing yourself, reconnecting to your dreams, and breaking through to an extraordinary life. “Thriving” means acknowledging divorce as a rite of passage toward self-actualization.

The Thriver’s Actualization Chart is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. “Survivors” are people who have abandoned their dreams, and whose primary focus in life is to meet their basic needs. “Survivors” are living small. “Strivers” operate out of the ego, and focus primarily on consumptive comfort™—acquiring material things as a way to placate a gnawing sense that there must be something more to life. “Strivers” play small by paying lip service to their dreams. “Thrivers” reconnect to their dreams through self-awareness. “Thrivers” pursue their dreams by aligning their actions with their values. “Thrivers” are authentic, conscious, curious and purposeful. “Thrivers” are the calm in the middle of any storm.