![]() They may live to be in their 90’s and have lived all those years and decades, only surviving. So many people live their life only surviving and they may survive for many, many years. Live in an emotionally toxic environment and you can survive you may not be very happy but happiness isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for survival. Get some sleep, even if it’s not as much as you require, you can still survive. Put food in your body when it’s hungry, even if it’s junk, you’ll likely survive. I’ve learned that it’s fairly easy to survive and most anyone can do that. What I’ve come to know is that survival is good and thriving is better. A life that is not only filled, rather overflowing, with abundance in all areas. Not only do I want to live for as long as I can, I want to live a long life where my mind and body are as healthy as they possibly can be. This knowledge gives me more opportunities to care for myself, in ways those before me didn't know how to. In the advanced world we live in, we're provided more opportunities to know about our health and well-being than any generation before us. I choose to learn from what they did or didn't do, doing things differently where necessary in my own life. Yet, I do believe that I will live longer and be healthier than my ancestors. I believe that the way in which they lived their lives, both good and bad, serve as education for me. Obviously my life will end at some point, this I know for sure. This knowing means I want to do all that I can to help it remain clear, sharp, and working at its highest form. I now understand that I am the sole caretaker of my beautiful complex mind. Have I always created that space for it? Nope! But when you know better, you do better. My mind, which is invaluable, requires a positive environment to flourish in. I spent decades abusing this (now) beloved home for my soul fueling it with garbage, consuming things that were toxic, and continually running on empty, yet it continued to move me through life. My body, this vessel that carries me through life day in and out, continues to work extremely hard for me, even when I have greatly mistreated it. In fact, for decades I neglected my health, which I now know means that essentially I neglected myself. I certainly haven’t always honored my body or my mind. I’ve been incredibly fortunate that I haven’t had any major health issues throughout my life. Viscerally understanding that I will go through my entire lifetime with this one incredible body and this one precious mind, has changed how I care for myself. The words sound simple and obvious, however the feeling that comes with this knowing, is potent. I will never receive another opportunity during my life to replace this body or mind that I came into the world with. To live this life, in this body, at this time in history. This is the only chance I will ever have to be me. This decision came from something I began to understand beyond just the words for the first time in my life, I felt its knowing in the core of my being. I made a commitment to always strive to thrive in my life. It's quite likely, as I think you suspect, that 'Strive to become an efficient and adaptive IT organisation', where strive (like try, attempt, seek) takes a to-infinitive clause thus forming a catenation, is what was intended, and that this is a malapropism.A few years ago I learned to move out of surviving and into thriving. One can't say that 'Thrive! Become an efficient and adaptive IT organisation!' is ungrammatical, but it's certainly verging on the outlandish. However, the injunction 'Thrive' or 'Prosper' sounds very strange here, belonging in a religious or otherwise supernatural domain. ' is by no means unacceptable (though I'd use the -ing form 'becoming' instead here). ![]() So the sentence 'They prospered/thrived to become one of the largest. Is an example of the same king using 'thrive'. From then on Bloomsbury has thrived to become arguably the best knownĬultural group in the Western world.' which has prospered greatly – so much so, that it has become. ' is an adjunct containing additional closely connected (showing results / expanding on the matrix sentence) material, are quite acceptable. The home of the famous Yorkshire Mixture, Joseph Dobson’s is aįascinating story of a family owned business, which has prospered toīecome one of the largest family owned confectionery manufacturers in.To be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects (Illustrations using 'prosper' are perhaps more accessible.) 'Prosper', unlike 'strive', is a close synonym of 'thrive'.
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