What Do You Need In Life?
Understanding your needs—all of your needs, even the most basic ones—is elemental to successful wealth creation. To you, this may seem either very simplistic or too unrelated to making money to matter [or possibly even both], but need is at the heart of making money and creating wealth, and gaining a perspective on those needs is elemental to efficiency and financial freedom.
First, Know Your Needs
Because the discussion can get a little long for a blog post, I’ll break this up into two; for now, let’s take a look at the basic human needs that all people have (this is all people everywhere, and it doesn’t matter where you live, what race or culture or religion you are, or if you have no strong belief systems at all). These are six needs outlined in the wealth creation courses and writings of Jamie McIntyre, taught to him by Anthony Robbins, one of his mindset mentors.
The six basic needs of all people are:
1. Human connection—love, relations, intimacy, giving and receiving love
2. Comfort—certainty, predictability, stress management/reduction, increasing pleasurable experiences, security
3. Variety—’the spice of life’; just as we need to feel safe through predictability, we need things that are unpredictable and uncertain to keep life interesting
4. Significance—we must feel that we matter—that we are significant, purpose
5. Growing—to grow is to be alive; if we do not feel that we are growing, we feel that we are dead
6. Contributing—contribution makes us feel needed and fulfilled; As Jamie says, we’d rather contribute to others than ourselves because we feel fulfilled and important that way
If you look at these needs, you’ll surely be able to attach things from your life to each. Later we can talk more about some things that you might be doing or might do better to make the most of need fulfillment. For now, think about the needs and your desire to fulfill each as a human being. Recognize that you have needs, appreciate that, and give your innate needs their due.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008
Tags: Building Wealth, Create Wealth, Financial Education, Financial Success, Mindset, Success, Wealth