The Functional Environment: What does your environment say about you?

Posted on 14. Jul, 2011 by Phyllis in Life Coach

Life Coach, Phyllis Reid-Jarvis

Satisfied needs don’t motivate, unmet needs do – Ultimate Potentials Living Course

We humans are more motivated to strive to meet our unmet needs as opposed to those needs that are already met. Think about it, if you have eaten and you are full and satisfied, do you think about how hungry you are and what to eat in the next few minutes? The answer to this question for many individuals is, no.

The reason is the need has been fulfilled. You no longer are motivated to work at meeting this need at this moment. You are likely striving to meet a new set of identified needs; this is our nature, our make-up.
Let us take this further, if you reflect closely on any deep-seated dream you currently have, how often does the dream occupies your thoughts? Deep down you probably feel or know that once this dream is fulfilled you will feel complete. The question that begs to be asked is: ‘what is stopping you from achieving this dream?” The answer should be nothing!

Sadly for too many people that is not the answer; instead the answer is likely fear. Many of us are not aware of or even able to identify fear as the reason for not taking action. Too often these unmet needs are masked by certain behaviours or habits, the outcome of which is that so many of us allow fear to stop us from living to our Ultimate Potentials.

Fear is the deepest, widest and most well-worn path present in so many people’s minds_Ultimate Potentials Living Course
To use our unmet needs to motivate us towards living to our ultimate potentials, we will need to identify these needs and start the process of using them to achieve success. The following questions will start the process:

Reflections on identifying fulfilled and unmet needs:
1. What aspects of your life have you identified as having unmet needs?
2. What do you need to help you begin meeting these unmet needs?
3. Who in your life is a resource that will help you meet these needs?
4. When will you take action to start meeting these unmet needs?

Write out your responses to the above questions then set them aside; then each day take 10 minutes daily to review the questions and reflect on your answers. The purpose of which is to identify just how much you are ‘standing in your truth’. This is the start of using unmet needs to motivate you towards a successful life!
A Life Coach is a great resource to use to help you create a life plan. A Coach will work with you to provide tangible results and support you in transferring these results in all other aspects of your life. A coach will support you to be accountable to your self-development goals, as well as stop to celebrate your achievements along the way.

Live Well…Phyllis