In a sense, any lifestyle improvement is an upgrade, but the improvements on this page can affect your life and the future of the whole world in profound ways. Be a friend. Lift a friend higher.
Most people think of peace as either the absence of war, or as inner peace.
Since your goals and dreams depend on the stability of your community, environment and political system, the bottom half of your goals and dreams is the stability of these life-support systems. One benefit to you of thinking in this new way is that you have a fuller, clearer idea of what it takes to feel at peace and be secure, since you need all these systems to be in balance. A second benefit is that you see peace, security and a clean environment not as something out there, something far away, but instead you see them as underneath you, as a foundation that you must keep strong for you to reach your goals. This makes for a stronger sense of connection, as the distance between the big picture of the world and your personal world is reduced. This follows from the life-support systems view of peace stated above.