Importance Of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs In My Life

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in My Life

Sometimes it is hard to see change, at least up close. I forget how much I have changed in my life until I look at a picture of myself in middle school or I run into an old friend I haven’t seen in a while. My point is that sometimes I wonder if I am doing what I am supposed to be doing in my life and that I am reaching or at least close to reaching my full potential as a person. This would be considered a motivator in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In one of my college classes, we were supposed to write about how we can inspire motivation in ourselves. I said that the only way I know how to motivate myself is to recognize the value in what I am doing. Although, According to Abraham Maslow, there are several more key factors that motivate us and self-actualization is at the top of that list. These needs are physiological, safety, belongingness and love, self-esteem, and again self-actualization.

I understand that physiological

Some people are worried about what other people might think of them so much that it controls their actions. I don’t let what other people think of me dictate my actions. When I was younger I did care about what my peers thought of me and I believe that everyone cares what other people think of them, but to a point. Pursuing this further, when I was younger I didn’t really have a chance to care about the approval of my peers. This is because I was always with my sisters and my best friend and closed myself off to basically everyone else. In my life, my self-esteem, confidence, and self-respect was always an inward awareness rather than an outward experience. I feel like people as a whole are constantly trying to prove themselves, to compete with one another and be better, smarter, stronger, and more skilled than one another. In my opinion, a lot of people’s self-esteem is based on this perception of