Sometimes it helps to reframe the need as a want.

I think if you cut through all the crap, humans have very very few actual needs. Air, food, water, sleep, basic interactions through which we feel some sort of connection with something.

After that, there are things that make our life better, but aren't essential to living it.

That's not to say we shouldn't go after the things we want, but we don't have to be desparate to have it.

I think we spend a lot of time focusing on needs, when in fact, they aren't needs at all.

Gratitude for our lives as they are, acceptance and celebration of all the good that is already in them - helped me a lot.