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A person’s emotional condition can be improved if they get on a good path, look along it in a positive direction, and do the right thing. If they consistently do the right things they will move toward a more wonderful life. There are many paths to supreme personal happiness but going toward catastrophe on any path must ultimately lead to catastrophe.

The emotional state of a person can be defined and compared on an Emotional Thriving scale (ET) of – 1. Wonderful, 2. Good, 3. Okay, 4. Difficult, 5. Catastrophic. The action that will appear to be most beneficial to individuals on each level of the scale will seem different at different times and places. Seeing where someone is at present on the ET scale helps them to know where they should place their attention and what actions they should take.

For example, a person living a catastrophic lifestyle will find it difficult to maintain a healthier one for long. If they suddenly came into a thousand dollars it would probably be spent on drugs for getting high rather than getting a better iPhone, as a person living an Okay lifestyle, two steps up, would more likely choose to do. Or clearing up some bank loans as a Good lifestyle individual, three steps up, might choose to do. Or, investing the money in a promising stock as a Wonderful lifestyle person, four steps up, would be prone to do. But, each of those actions will not be appealing to a person living a Catastrophic lifestyle.

A single step up from a catastrophic lifestyle would be what is labeled a Difficult lifestyle. This style of using the thousand dollars is probably more available as something a Catastrophic person would find meaningful, and thus able to do. Perhaps renting a room would be appropriate for them and would be much healthier than getting high.

The Emotional Thriving Scale gives more actionable paths for people to use for directing their lives than the impossible to follow directives they are commonly given.