This is more where you find yourself belonging and who you find yourself wanting to be around with a positive environment. This consists of things like having a family that loves you, friends that enjoy being around you, personal intimacy with someone, belongingness, and different relationships you might have in your life. The group above love and belonging is having esteem. This comes in when some or the more basic needs are satisfied, and you are wanting to be able to bring yourself more personal satisfaction. This might come through something you have done positively in work, or sports, or anything that would give you a sense of self accomplishment with yourself. The very highest, but definitely not the least important category is self actualization. This is the highest level any person can be, and it occurs when a being has reached their full potential, and has a sense of self fulfillment, and also is a peaking point in a person's life. For me I would like to believe that I have done well with my life, but have not reached the state of self actualization.
I have some examples of how I have used most of these levels in my daily life, and if not daily, fairly often. Personally I have lots of examples of how I show and am in the physiological needs grouping. For example, every day I am breathing the air that the earth makes for us, I also eat food that lets me survive, I also drink water that makes my body run so that I do not dehydrate and die, I also live and sleep in a house every night that keeps me warm and dry. Those are some of the basic needs that I fulfill for the physiological need category in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In the safety group I am able to say that I fit into this well, because my family has all of the things that depict what makes up this category. For the third group, social needs, I am more in and out for this one than I am for the other two above. The reason behind this is that I occasionally am finding myself mad or having others mad at me to the point of me not being sure if I fulfill this category or not. For the last category that I find myself in is esteem needs, I often have the sense of self accomplishment in things I do, because I feel like I have done well or accomplished something of great importance in this area. For example I would feel a great sense of self accomplishment if I have the ability to complete my Eagle for the Boy Scouts of America before I turn eighteen, because this is a very long and hard task to accomplish and a very little percentage of people who actually start scouts receive this accomplishment. Lastly for self actualization, I do not feel like I have gotten to this yet, mostly because I would like to believe that I have not peaked, and have not reached my full potential yet as a human
being.