Meeting Needs Constructively
Now that we’ve established that we all, as humans, have needs, and that we all do something to meet those needs, let’s talk just a bit about how we go about meeting the basic needs of life. A perspective on how you meet life needs will help you refocus your efforts and habits into more constructive, more beneficial means of meeting them.
Meeting Needs on Different Levels
As we’ve said, everyone meets their basic needs; but not everyone meets them well. Not everyone meets them on the same level, either. You may be meeting your basic human needs on one of three levels:
• Low level of fulfillment
• Moderate level of fulfillment
• High level of fulfillment
Each of these levels has certain ‘vehicles’ or ‘means’ of meeting the needs attached to them. These vehicles can be categorized thusly:
• Low fulfillment: destructive vehicles
• Moderate fulfillment: neutral vehicles
• High fulfillment: constructive vehicles
These need-fulfillment vehicles take a large variety of forms, both good and bad and places in between. Here are just a few examples:
• Sympathy (of others, to others)
• Substances (alcohol, drugs)
• Food
• Control
• Identity
• Faith/spirituality
• Money (spending and saving, different levels of construction for the same vehicle)
• Accomplishments, awards
• Leading
• Teaching
• Criticizing
As said, these are just a very few ways to meet needs, and some of these can be either negative or positive. To really learn and identify what you are doing well to meet your needs, or where you need to improve, I encourage you to read Jamie’s full discussion on the matter.
Many people are not even aware of how their needs are being met, so long as they feel they are meeting them. That is what makes this an important lesson to learn in the course of wealth creation. If you do not feel need you will not be compelled to change your life; but if you analyze your needs and strategies for meeting them, you may readily understand why what you are doing to meet your needs is counterproductive to living well and living life to its fullest…and to creating wealth for more comfortable living.
To Your Continued Financial Success
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
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