In the 1940s Abraham Maslow defined a principle that identified our needs that enabled us to live a successful life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maslow described these needs as a physiological or psychological deficiency that a person feels the compulsion to satisfy. This need will create tensions that will influence a person\u2019s attitudes and behaviours. Maslow formed a theory based on his definition of need that proposes that humans have multiple needs and that these needs exist in a hierarchical order. Maslow\u2019s theory identified five levels of human need and is based on the following two principles: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One, the deficit principle: A satisfied need no longer motivates behaviour because people will only act to satisfy deprived needs. Two, the progression principle: A need at any level only comes into play after a lower-level need has been satisfied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his principle Maslow identified two levels of need, those needs at a lower level which need satisfying first and those needs at a higher level which cannot be satisfied until the lower level needs have been satisfied. The highest needs are self actualisation or self fulfilment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This may all seem like common sense but very few people appear to be following through on building the simple, basic foundations outlined within Maslow\u2019s Hierarchy of needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact society today imagines that all lower level needs have been achieved historically and we now only have to find self fulfilment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this is wrong, the principle applies to everyone, everyday.<\/strong> If we ignore our daily requirement to satisfy lower level needs we can never achieve fulfilment. Our life will be very difficult and it could be dominated by illness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This lack of recognising our needs on a daily basis is creating a barrier to success and to fulfilment, we inflict upon ourselves low levels of health and a shorter life than we may want or expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Identifying and satisfying our needs EVERYDAY can help us lead a more productive & creative life. If our companies, instead of spending billions on quirky management initiatives , spent their money on ensuring that staff were in a position to satisfy their daily needs they would achieve quite naturally a huge benefit in productivity & creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In simple terms if we provide an environment where people sleep eight hours a day, take regular exercise outside in natural sunlight, eat a regular balanced diet that is organic in its basis, where people talk with each other, engaged in conversation and where we learn to walk, sit & stand in a good position. If we conduct good thought management and look at our health in an holistic manner our minds and bodies will perform as they were designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 1940s Abraham Maslow defined a principle that identified our needs that enabled us to live a successful life. Maslow described these needs as a physiological or psychological deficiency that a person feels the compulsion to satisfy. This need will create tensions that will influence a person\u2019s attitudes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-when-i-was-working","category-live-your-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomegood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}