After getting food and water, remember that sufficient sleep is important for any age for best performance an many arenas including leadership. West Point spent a good bit of time drumming into leaders in training that the leader has to have enough sleep to make good decisions.

Security of their body, their family, their health, their property (their belongings) is the next level of need. Let’s assume this is taken care of.

Martial arts can help provide a degree of control over safety.

Security of morales is included here. Shelter from weather is also included. They should be safe to move on to bigger and better things. Sleeping exposed to the weather and other people changes the way you function. Besides, chattering teeth from cold rain prevents you from sleeping much anyway.

This includes emotional intimacy, closeness, and caring for family, friends. It includes being a part of groups. We humans need to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance, whether it comes from a large social group, such as clubs, school/office culture, religious groups, professional organizations, sports teams, or small social connections (family members, mentors, close friends, confidants).

It can help to fill this need from home, so the child is not as needy for acceptance from other groups.

Effective leaders tend to have strong relationships with others.

All humans have a need to be respected, to have self-esteem, self respect, and to respect others. People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel accepted and self-valued, be it in a talent, hobby, or life’s work. Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem or an inferiority complex. People with low self-esteem need respect from others. They may seek fame or glory, which again depends on others. It may be noted, however, that many people with low self-esteem will not be able to improve their view of themselves simply by receiving fame, respect, and glory externally, but must first accept themselves internally.

People with low self esteem need to work on themselves first. Low self esteem makes effective leadership all the more difficult.

Goals can provide the motivation to realize your own best potential. This level includes creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, etc.

Near the end of his life, Maslow determined that there was another level on his hierarchy that was above self-actualization: self-transcendence. …may be said to be much more often aware of the realm of Being, to be living at the level of Being to have a plateau experience and to have or to have had peak experience with illuminations or insights or cognition which changed their view of the world and of themselves, perhaps occasionally, perhaps as a usual thing.

He stated that the achievements and success of his offspring were more satisfying than the personal fulfillment and growth characterized in self-actualization.