Do you know what your unique personal needs are?

By personal needs I don't mean needs such as food, water and oxygen. I mean the needs that are specific to you but not necessarily to other people.

For example, I'm very fussy about sleep. I know that I need 7.5 hours of good quality sleep every night in order to function properly and be the wonderful person that I want to be. I also have a strong need for spending time in the nature. I get irritated and tired when I spend too much time in a city. Furthermore, I have a need to spend time on my own. People are very, very important to me and I love spending time with my husband or with my friends, but I also need to have some time on my own in order to stay in harmony
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If you're not sure what your own personal needs are, I suggest that you think about it until you figure it out. It is very, very important that you know what your personal needs are.

If you find it difficult to figure out what your personal needs are, try to think of times when you felt irritated, tired, bored, anxious, stressed or low in energy. Was there perhaps an unfulfilled need that caused you to feel in that way? What would you have needed to feel good again?

If you don't know what you need in order to be the wonderful person that you are meant to be, you cannot make sure that you get these needs fulfilled. You may wander around feeling down without knowing why. That would be a waste of time and it would be bad for your self-esteem
. If you don't respect your own needs you are telling yourself (and others) that you are not important. Obviously, this will pull your self-esteem down, and your low self-esteem will in turn negatively affect all other parts of your life.

To raise your self-esteem, to stay true to yourself and to give yourself a chance to develop your potential, you have to respect your needs.

Liv Miyagawa, The Self-Esteem Coach, helps people all over the world to raise their self-esteem and to reach their personal goals. She opens people's eyes to their own strengths and helps them to figure out what it really is that they want to get out of life. Liv helps people to find out exactly what steps they need to take to reach their goals, and she supports them and motivates them on their journey towards a more fulfilling future. www.livmiyagawa.com.