Are you familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? The idea is that lower needs need to be satisfied before higher needs can be addressed, as represented by the graphic below. So humans’ basic needs – food, water, shelter, sleep, etc. – have to be taken care of before we can move on to security, love and belonging, confidence and achievement, and, ultimately, the ability to be creative, spontaneous, and to take the moral high ground.
This theory is meant to explain our motivations. Movement through these levels isn’t implied to be linear or even consecutive. We can bounce from one level to the other, and occupy different levels at the same time, especially when dealing with different issues.
And that’s pretty much all I remember from Psych 101.
In any case, I can totally see how this theory would apply to my own life. I was thinking about this as it relates to pregnancy and I think this situation really warrants its own very specific hierarchy of needs.
I figure it would look something like this:
I am maybe, sort of, almost pondering working my way into the purple layer. But honestly, most of the time I’m still stuck down in the orange. And I’m okay with that. Just don’t eat my Cheerios.
Hah!! I can relate. Absolutely. I should do a chart for when you hit 39 weeks
You totally should! Do it.
I love this. You are cracking me up. I’ll stay away from your cheerios, but I can’t promise that Dylan will
Well… he’s cute, so I might share.
Love this! Chortle! Maslow was my obsession.
My orange level reads “keeps kids from killing each other while I camp out on the couch”. That’s pretty much all I can manage anymore. I’m sort of okay with that.
Funny how priorities change! Hang in there.
Savor those Cheerios now, my friend, because in time, when you’ve stepped on them in every room of your house, they won’t be so appealing.
Giggle.
Hee. Funny, Connor was never a big fan. Maybe that’s why I am okay with them now. We’ll see how this next one reacts.
I’m not even pregnant and I’m trying to get to purple!
While I don’t like cheerios myself there are always lots of them IN my bed.
Yes. But I would change cheerios to chocolate.