Define Your Dominant Need

Everyone has a dominant need that drives them in life. It provides the subconscious fuel for most of your beliefs and actions. It shapes your interactions with people. And even colors your perceptions of what is considered a reward to you and what is a punishment.

Certainly, if you are planning on making dramatic changes and progress in you life you need to identify what your dominant need is.

For some people they are driven by the need to be accepted or find acceptance. For others, the need might be for freedom. The need for status or recognition is another. Top needs continue with security, the need to raise a family, the need for money, the need for expression, the call of duty to others and the need for power.

By understanding what your dominant need is you can begin to figure out what drives you:
-what questions are you trying to solve with your life?
-how does your need define your purpose or your career?
-what do you value in life?

A good way to examine this is to make a list of all the needs that you can think or ones that resonate with you in particular. Next take that list and rank it. Find out which need is the one you strive for the most and speaks to you most deeply. Chances are that is your dominant need.

Knowing yourself and what your dominant need is will help you when it comes to defining success for you. When this need is met, you will have come a long way towards finding successes in your life that mean something. After all it is your life.