Maslow’s Motivation and Hierarchy of Needs
According to Maslow, the motivation for a successful life is based on five assumptions. His beliefs are focused on a needs pyramid used to model human elements and motivation to succeed. The five pyramid levels of Maslow’s include physiological and safety needs, love and belonging, self-actualization as well as esteem. The fundamental assumption involved in the structure is to begin from the bottom upwards. Therefore, to accomplish the top, the underlying the bottom of the pyramids needs must be achieved first
In the five levels pyramid, the physiological need comes first. It basically represents life’s basic necessities, needed every day for survival. The immediate and outright ones are food, shelter, air, and water. For human survival, food and air to breathe, as well as water are essential for the achievement of a successful life. The shelter is an essential need for a successful mode of life and to offer a form of stability. Matthew 6:11, says the Lord God states will give us our daily bread. The biblical sense refers to what Maslow’s hierarchy calls human physiological needs, like the bread in this context is the physical needs we require for everyday survival.
The next need in the hierarchy is safety. Naturally human requires to feel and be safe for the achievement of desire and hence the success of life. This is based on our emotional and physical contexts in life. It can be perceived and looked in multifaceted angle to entail the safety and security of the body, employment, family as well as health. The safety need defines the security required by one to fulfil the family security outside of the physiological needs for basic survival (Ginn et al., 2017). It forms the basis for climbing through the pyramid to acquire the self-actualization and love as well as belonging needs. The need is a good outline in biblical sense in Jeremiah 33:6 with emphasis on granting us with health, an abundance of prosperity as well as security.
Still going up the pyramid is the love and belonging need. It expresses our feeling for family and friendship. Love and belonging need to demonstrate the urge to express intimacy and relationships. It provides a basis for family provisions in the sense that collaboration of it with safety and physical needs can be even more complete. John 3:16 states that the Lord God loved us so much that He sacrificed His only son life for the unconditional intimacy
Drilling up further in the pyramid is the esteem need. It refers to self-confidence in what you do in life. In actual sense, it is the urge to respect others and want the same return. When we become burned out and lack good esteem we are unable to see others clearly and to help others (Hale et al, 2019). In other words, it is the act of believing in oneself, wanting and having pride in you. Hebrews 2:7 reveals to us that we are created relative to the angels themselves.
The final need is self-actualization. This need encourages us to have values, truth, individuality, balance, harmony and meaning in all we do. To respect our choices and plans and future endeavours. It defines our overall moral aspect. It gives us a sense of problem-solving and the true acceptance of facts in life. In this need it as if we have found a new beginning and a new set of goals to succeed in life by. This is the last of the needs for motivation due to the fact that we have to meet all other needs before continuing on our journey to be our best. 2 Corinthians 5:17, a new creation is born.
In summary, therefore, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs pyramid reveals levels of life priorities for the achievement of success. The hierarchy begins with the basic life necessities and ends with a transformation into a new creation. To be specific and more clear, human requires the basic needs for survival and then security, followed by love and belonging for others as well as esteem for reality and hence the new creation of what is to be continued on the journey for success.
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