Positive Shape

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation.  His theory suggested that people have a number of basic needs that must be met before people move up the hierarchy to pursue more social, emotional, and self-fulfilling needs (Emily Swaim 2020). Maslow's hierarchy of needs is relevant to human motivation, if a lower need is not met, the higher ones will be ignored. Keeping people motivated can seem like a moving target. People rarely fit perfectly into pyramids or diagrams, and their needs are complicated and often change over time. Maslow's pyramid remains an extremely useful object to turn to whenever we try to gauge the direction of our life. Its wonderfully simple visual cue is, above all, the portrait of a life lived in harmony with the complexities of our nature. (The school of life) Patz

Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to adjust to change? Imagine starting a new job at the beginning it seems to you that nothing makes sense, you may even think that the job you have always dreamed of is not for you and you want to give up. The same is when you start a diet or a new sport. To build a new habit it takes courage and commitment  I'll explain why: Imagine habits as neural pathways, your brain is full of old pathways, and to make room for a new habit you have to insert a new path into your old ones. The new path will be established after you have repeated your new behavior for 45 days, regardless of whether you feel good or not. (Loretta Graziano Breuning, 2015) Unfamiliar feelings are dangerous and exhausting, that's why we want to give up and stick to familiar feelings, that's why it's so hard to embrace change, but with commitment if you stick to the new habit for 45 days you will eventually feel so good because at that point the new path in your...