What do you NEED?
There are 6 needs that every human being shares and we can break them up into 2 groups.
Group 1 are the 4 needs of the personality and group 2 are the 2 needs of the spirit.
We break them into 2 groups because we know that all of us, everywhere in the world, at all times will achieve the first 4. We do it in a variety of ways that we have experienced from our environments, such as:
- Cultures
- Religions
- Education
- Decisions
- Beliefs
The second group (the 2 needs of the spirit), we will only meet when we have mastered the first 4.
Our focus in our last Mindset & Goal setting workshop was on the 4 needs of the human. Here’s what we discovered.
Certainty
Everyone needs it, and most people need a lot of it. You NEED to be certain that you’re going to eat, your going to have somewhere to sleep, your family is going to be safe and provided for and that you’re going to have some sort of happiness in your life.
Uncertainty
It’s the variety that we all yearn for. The spice of life that people keep talking about. It’s the travel, the experiences, the trying new things, the challenges and the stepping outside of our comfort zones that keep this need filled.
Significance
It’s the praise, the value, the self worth that we want for ourselves. It let’s us know that we are valuable and that people need us, or at least something needs us.
Love & Connection
We are a social animal. For us to survive we have developed this innate ability to create, develop and share bonds with other living things, animals, people, nature, etc. It’s the connection and the love that we need and that we fight for.
Everyone needs all of these, and everyone will get them in one way or another. The difference is, how much do you need and where do you get it from? Because everyone has a different quota that they need to fill. Do you need an abundance of certainty, and just a little bit of uncertainty? Or do you need serious amounts of significance?
It’s important to understand how and where you meet your needs, because we found that not a lot of people do. And when you understand why you do what you do, everything becomes a whole lot clearer, decisions become a whole lot easier, life has direction and you all of a sudden have control over it.
/Note – The fastest way to achieve each need is dependant on our environments and usually comes in a destructive form. Drugs = variety, Violence = significance, Alcohol = certainty, self sabotage = conection
HOMEWORK
Answer each of these questions for each of the 4 needs.
- How much do you need?
- Where do you get it from?
- Do you get enough of it?
- How does it make you feel/How do you respond, when you get it?
If you want some clarity and direction and a better understanding of why you do what you do, and what you can do to change it, send your answers to denee@uftplaygrounds.com.au and start the conversation.
Have a fantastic week and I can’t wait to see you on Tuesday the 24th at 7:30pm for our next Mindset & Goal Setting Workshop.
Enjoy your day & PLAY
Denee Lalouette
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY.
PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training.
We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way.
We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general.
A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness.
The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal.
For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else.
As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own
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This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body.
A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them.
UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry.
Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System.
This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business.
See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.
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