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Questions: (Score 1 - 10) (Watch the video as I walk you through the exercise)

1. How often do you worry about money?
2. Do you feel like your finances are perfectly organized?
3. Are you being paid for living your soul purpose?
4. Do you have enough money coming in from your portfolio income to cover your expenses?
5. What percentage of your income comes from you working in your Soul Purpose?
6. If you were to lose the ability to generate income today, would you have enough funds available to keep your same lifestyle?
7. What percentage of your income is supporting or investing in your Soul Purpose?

How are you limited by fear? Is it keeping you from living your ideal life?

Paul Slovic , a psychologist at the University of Oregon, has spent decades studying how we decide what’s risky and what isn’t. His studies have shown that how risky something actually is has almost nothing to do with how risky we think it is.

Slovic has demonstrated that people think skiing is safer than flying on a commercial aircraft, that smoking is less dangerous than being around handguns, that nuclear power plants are riskier than cars.

Think about these questions: Do more Americans die of suicide or homicide? Which is more lethal, kidney disease or AIDS?

According to the U.S. Government, in the year 2000 nearly twice as many people killed themselves as were murdered, and kidney diseases caused nearly three times as many deaths as AIDS. Although Americans consistently rate nuclear power as one of the most dangerous of all technologies, it’s actually safer by any objective measure than most other forms of power. And two of the deadliest things in America are cigarettes and cars; auto accidents alone kill an average of 115 Americans every day.

So, what do you fear? Public speaking? Failure? Selling? Think of something that you fear, a fear that is limiting your production, then ask yourself the following questions:

1. What's the worst possible thing that could happen if my fear occurs?

2. What's the worst possible thing that could happen if I never overcome or eliminate this fear?

3. What's the best possible outcome I can expect if I don't overcome or eliminate my fear?

4. What's the best possible outcome I can expect if I do overcome or eliminate my fear? 

What possibilities would unfold in your life if you were to face and overcome your fears?

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett was once talking to a group of college students and told them, “I am really no different than you. I may have more money than you do, but money doesn’t make the difference…

"If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.”

If you’re unhappy with your life, the chances are that you are not providing a fraction of the value that you’re capable of. Happy people who focus on developing their unique gifts always produce more value for others and alleviate more suffering in the world than those who are routinely unhappy.

What will it take for you to live the life you love? What will be the effect in your personal life? What will be the effect on the world at large? How many more people can you impact by living your ideal life and doing what you were born to do? How many problems exist and how many people are suffering if you're not?