Your best life is built sequentially, one level at a time. Forget the elevator, climb all the stairs to the top, and you’ll have lasting success.

In 1954, Abraham Maslow released Motivation and Personality. His Hierarchy of needs theory is all about climbing to the top.

Maslow suggested that to reach your full potential:

1) You must provide for your physiological needs: food, clothing, shelter, money, and more.

2) You must feel safe. Personally, emotionally, financially, with health and well-being, and against accidents and illness.

3) Socially you need to feel a sense of loving and belonging.

4) Esteem and the desire for acceptance, respect, and value by others is your next step. Maslow said, “What a man can be, he must be.” Self-actualization requires mastery of your previous needs.

5) Self-transcendence removes you from ego and begins your focus on the greater good.

Your best life is built sequentially one level at a time.

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