I Have Five Questions to Ask You

Dear Friend,

Do you love your job? Are you as healthy as you'd like to be? Do you have as much money as you need and want? Are your relationships meaningful and rewarding? Most important, are you living each day as the person you'd always hoped you'd become?

I wish you could answer yes to each question, but it's not always easy to make these things happen, is it? You work hard every day and have the best of intentions, but still you struggle to create the life you really want to live.

Perhaps you can even relate to several of the problems described below:

• Heading off to an unchallenging, unfulfilling, and low-paying job without any prospects of a bright and satisfying career in the future. Spending forty hours every week working for someone you don't admire or respect.
  
  

• Feeling unhappy and guilty about the way you look and afraid of the health risks that come with being out of shape. Running out of energy and feeling exhausted even before the day has run out. Wanting to change and live a healthier lifestyle but struggling to make it happen.
  
  

• Living paycheck to paycheck without being able to put money aside for savings, investments, or retirement. Feeling guilty about not being able to provide the nicer things in life for your family, and terrified at the thought of growing old without enough money to get by.
  
  

• Feeling alone and disconnected from others - even in a long-term relationships. Wanting to make new friends and enjoy fulfilling relationships with family and friends but unable to make it happen.
  
  

• Living by routine without any joy or excitement, unable to change negative habits or patterns. Doing the same things day after day and never feeling truly happy or fulfilled. Having to deal with constant worry, stress, and feelings of hopelessness.

While not every scenario hit home, I'm sure you've dealt with at least a handful of these feelings in your life. And you're not alone. Literally millions of people just like you are hoping to live a happier, more successful life, but the sad reality is that most will never find what they're looking for.

They'll live their entire lives without ever experiencing a rich, lively, exciting, and immensely rewarding life - and it's not through a lack of desire or effort.

If you haven't created the life you've always wanted to experience, it's not because you don't work hard or don't deserve it. And it's definitely not because you're simply a bad person.

No, the actual reason you're not getting everything you want in life is because you're missing a single critical skill.

	"...the only book to have stirred me into action." "Over the past 20 years I have read dozens of books on motivation and when I got to the last chapter I simply shut the book - and did nothing. "The Motivated Mind is the only book to have stirred me into action. Even before I got to the end I was 'up and at it,' and actually taking definite steps towards achieving all of my goals." John Savage London, England