What is a prosperer? How does one become a prosperer?
Questions like these are hard to ignore considering the growing fears in our economy, nature and the instability of our government. Like it or not, our economy is unsustainable and the end of the dollar is headed for a major collapse unless serious change from the top occurs. Our environment is constantly changing and the increase in earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other types of natural disasters is at an all time high. Even our own sun can cause irreparable harm to us humans by sending out incredible solar flares. These flares have the power to make our modern way of life obsolete and send us hundreds of years into the past. These almost probable scenarios are just some of the results that can await us. This is not a scare tactic to get you to sign up for a new way of life, it is simply the facts.
Let us return to the initial questions that concern us. What is a prosperer? Well, as I write this, my Microsoft Word 2007 is underlining “thriving” with a red mark. This means that this word does not exist. Screw that! But for the sake of being, let’s drop the “r” from “thriver.” This gives us the word “thrive”, which is actually a “real” word. The dictionary tells us that the word prosper means to prosper, to be lucky or successful, and to flourish. As humans, we should love to be associated with this definition. People with these attributes are admired and revered. We should all aspire to prosper and be prosperous.
Now that we know what a prosperer is, how do we become one? Preparing yourself mentally is the most important thing to do. Have you ever seen a world-class athlete prepare before a grueling race or see the look in the eyes of a professional soccer player before entering the battlefield? They are preparing their minds for what is to come so that nothing can take them by surprise and defeat them. This is the same thing to do for a prosperer. Visualize yourself being the owner of your own body and mind. Visualize yourself without irrational fear. Visualize yourself physically being able to do everything your body can handle, and more. This, my friend, is only the beginning. Connecting with nature and learning to be part of a team, learning and driving together, is also crucial.
Now that you’ve got the idea of what a prosperer should be, go out into your community and find like-minded people and build a team of families to form a “tribe.” Most of us weren’t born on a farm and raised to be self-sustaining our entire lives, so combining the knowledge of a group of people is the only way to truly thrive. Thribe isn’t a word either, obviously. It is the combination of the words prosper and tribe. Each individual or family must have a certain role within the tribe. Hunting, growing food, acquiring water, making fire, building, and basic medicine are essential functions for each tribe. Being educated about which herbs and plants are consumable in nature is also immensely important.
Once your tribe is complete, have meetings from time to time to discuss developments and an action plan for the worst economic or natural scenario. In the future, due to economic instability, most of the food and resources we will acquire will be localized. So, as the good book says, love your neighbor.
In this unpredictable world it is always essential to be prepared. Our main goal as human beings is to ensure the survival of our own race and to ensure that our future offspring live indelibly on this earth. When one develops an attitude of survival, there is a sense of relief within that person. He or she knows that no external force can disturb the reached psyche or endanger the life of them or their loved ones.
