What will your community do to thrive

What Will Your Community Do So It Thrives? Game 2.

“Play” - You and your community for your community’s future. Multiplayer. Real-life. Real-time. Real people. Real consequences - a surviving and thriving future for you and your community.
Win – You and your community survive and thrive today, near future, far future.
Setting - Your community

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Context.

Why you and your community can win.

In this “game” and real life, you and your community can win and have a surviving and thriving future. To “win” that future, keep in mind that your community is different with a different future already beginning. Whether that future appears bad or good, your community can do better. To build a better future, use Thrive strategy, tactics and actions that have been used successfully at the personal level and on larger scales (community, country). They can work for you and the community you care about. As they have for others, this strategy can help you and your community win by building, achieving and sustaining a surviving and thriving future.

Why you and your community must win. You and your community must win and have a surviving and thriving future. Your community must do better whether that future appears bad or good. Why? Even if your community has a good future, your community is not fully thriving, not likely to be fully thriving in the future, and still faces uncertainties about the long term future. You and your community want and need a surviving and thriving future because your community’s future is endangered and because of our human need to survive and desire to thrive. What drives your community and its people is our human need to survive and desire to thrive now and in a sustainable future. Further, because your community’s people (past and present) have broken some part of your community and endangered its future, you and your community’s people (present and future) must help fix what is broken and build a survivable and thriving future for your community.

Why you and your community must and can win together. To “win” and build this better future, your community’s people and leaders should be a team in this endeavor from the beginning and through each step. Winning depends on teamwork by and positive and effective leadership from your community’s leaders and people. Winning depends on a collaborative, team approach where the traditional leaders and the people (also serving as leaders) jointly provide leadership, vision, motivation, strategy and successful execution. A strong team has the greater potential to “win” and create and sustain large, positive change and a surviving and thriving community.

Key to winning the “game” is the strong desire by you and your community to move your community from its current vulnerabilities through and beyond surviving to a sustained thriving future.

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Note:
To win and build a surviving and thriving future in the real world, Thrive can help you. The Thrive! Next Generation Toolkit is laid out in Thrive! - People’s Guide To a Thriving Future and Thrive! - Building a Thriving Future available via Amazon.com or free download from ThriveEndeavor.org.

Getting Started.

Getting started with Thrive! – All Thrive Forever “game”. Multiplayer. Real-life. Real-time. Real people. Real consequences - a surviving and thriving future for you and your community.

Game. Multiplayer (you and your community for your community). Choose community - friends, family, affinity group, local community, state, country, or region.
Mode. Choose simulation or real-life.
Players. Choose the team well. Choose other players (non-enemy) and their role, motivation and ability. For each, what is ability, motivation and expected behavior? Specific abilities and motivation lead to greater success in specific roles. Organize team. Make initial decision on roles – who will do what when with what resources to produce what result. Make initial decision on how team will play as team (decisions, communication, joint and individual actions).
Team Play. Play as team. Best if whole team (before and during play) helps make choices (“play”, future, path, location, time), draw play map, identify enemies and friends, and explore. Good communication is very important.
Win. Choose win. Reduce vulnerability. Survive and thrive today, near future, far future.
Path and Future. Choose using Path (Survive, Partial Thrive, and Full Thrive) you will take and future (Survive, Partial Thrive, and Full Thrive) you will seek. Get off Current Path to avoid losing. [See Graphic - Future for Community’s Thriving and Surviving]
Play Location. Choose location best for play and achieving best future. Virtual location (online play). Physical location. Combination is best.
Play Time. Choose start time. Play real-time with pauses at least for strategy and rest.
“Enemies and Friends”. Identify real-life friends who help you win. For each, what is ability, motivation and expected behavior? For friends, determine what positive actions each will take and why. They may or may not be on your team. Identify real-life enemies who make or keep people vulnerable and/or stop people from surviving and thriving. For each, what is ability, motivation and expected behavior? For enemies, determine what negative actions each will take and why. They are defeated when there remain no threats to surviving and thriving.
Environment/Setting. Your community and its surrounding environment. Pay attention and adjust to changing environment.
Map. Draw map for play environment. Your community.
Exploration. Explore, before and during play, your ever-changing play environment - yourself and your community and its internal/external environment. Information gathering helps with strategy, tactics and actions.
Resources. Identify resources to be used during play. Includes people, things, money that help win.
Obstacles. Identify obstacles to overcome. These change.
Strategy, Tactics and Actions (Starting). Having chosen the path (Survive, Partial Thrive, Full Thrive) you will take and the future (Survive, Partial Thrive, Full Thrive) you will seek, strategize on how to get off Current Path to avoid losing and get on chosen path to chosen future and win. Strategize. First, near future. Second, far future. Third, forever. Or do simultaneous push for all three.
Adjust above elements as needed during play.

Play.

Play Thrive! – All Thrive Forever “game” and win surviving and thriving future for you and your community.

Play! Win near and far future!
Act. Execute strategy and tactics.
- Use Overall Thrive! strategy and action plan to track actions [who did what to/with whom, where, when and with what result].
Winning?
- Enter score info and calculate score using Thrive Scoresheet - Win? How well are you and for how long? Download Thrive (Excel) Fillable Scoresheet.
If winning, congratulations! If losing, do better!
Adjust strategies, tactics and actions during play.
Pause. Rest?
Play! Win!
Win or lose, continue “game”. This is real life.
Play! Win surviving and thriving future. Ultimate score is 150,000!
- See Graphic - Thrive Score: Winning? Thriving?

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