If you find that financially you can never seem to make ends meet, then best thing for you to do is to have a financial checkup.

Find out exactly what you are spending and where your hard earned income is really going.

Prepare a budget. Here is one of many tools available on Internet that can help you with process of taking hold of your financial reality.

http://www.freeplanner.com.au/

Or go to your favorite search engine and type in budget planner.

Health Reality:

Obviously we should check reality of our health. I do this personally by taking a physical at least once every two years. I service my car every 10,000 km, so it is a good idea to take care of vehicle that I live in 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Some years back I had a physical that revealed I had extremely high blood cholesterol levels and by simply adjusting my diet and adding to it regular exercise, I was able to rectify that situation before it got too serious.

Spiritual Reality:

I do a spiritual reality check-up every Sunday I go to church. Not only does it keep my compass pointing in right direction for my life, but I often get some great ideas for my future Motivational Memos.

Obviously there are many other areas of our life that require regular reality checkups. Make a list and do your own analysis.

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POSSIBLE THINKING LEADS TO POSSIBLE ACTION

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4.EXPAND YOUR REALITY

I have a teenage son. When I took over responsibility for his education this year I had incredible difficulty in getting him motivated about reading.

Now for someone who writes books I found it extremely difficult to understand, but thinking back to when I was his age I could more readily identify with dilemma.

I realized that it was important for him to expand his reality so that he could grow not only in knowledge but also in wisdom. But how could I find his hot button?

I discovered it. I was reading a book that explained that one way a parent helped his son to expand his reality was through reading of biographies of people who lived lives that his son wanted to live.

So from that day on Ben has been reading books, written at his present reading level and interest, about Albert Einstein, Christopher Columbus, Johnny Appleseed, Susanna Wesley, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, The Wright Brothers, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and list goes on and on. He now loves reading and we often talk about latest great person that he is learning about.

This interest in reading has overflowed into his writing. With his renewed confidence he has just created his own Website, which he wrote, with only a limited amount of editing from me. And as far as his tutorials are concerned, bulk of his students are adults.

Ben's New Website: http://www.webwondersnews.com

Motivational Memo for Week: Nothing is impossible to possible thinker.

© Peter Sinclair, 2000-2003 http://www.motivationalmemo.com All rights reserved.

Source Material: The Wright Brothers - They Gave Us Wings By Charles Ludwig

The interior's architecture must be changed first and foremost before exterior's beauty can begin to shine.

That's why, if I dump a million dollars on your doorstep and you have never handled a million dollars in your life before, statistics tell us that million dollars will slip through your fingers in no time fast.

So what do you do?

Become, as Robert Kiyosaki so eloquently shares, 'financially literate.'

To be successful you must first think successful thoughts.

To win you must first think winning thoughts.

The battleground is found within your mind and it is there that battle must be waged.

Positive thoughts injected into your life on a consistent basis, backed by positive action, will lead to positive results.

That is one reason why I soak myself in biographies of great men and women who have lived and are still living.

That is why I am always reading half a dozen books all at once and a few extra on side.

That is why I read with pencil in hand and notebook at ready waiting to capture that thought that will leap from page and be imbedded in my mind. This is so that not only I am benefited but that those who read my writings receive 'best of best'.

Read as a student, always at ready to pluck a nugget of gold from within dusty pages of a volume you have uncovered. Riches untold will not stay away from your door.

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WALK WITH A CHANGED MAN AND BECOME CHANGED

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2. PRESERVE THE SAME DOMINATING PURPOSE

What births passion?

What produces drive?

What steers creative workmanship?

What forces courage to rise from within?

Winston Churchill was a man driven by destiny. He had an insatiable appetite for hard work and for learning. Whether it was politics, painting, writing, journalism, bricklaying or any other pursuit, he was gleaning from others, reading and studying, and with that 'fill of information' he would forge his way ahead into unknown with confidence that nothing was impossible to him.

Did he always get it right? Was he infallible? No. His life was filled with flaws and he committed reprehensible errors that not only impacted his life but even destroyed lives of many others along way.

And yet, he would rise up and above 'the black dog' that often overwhelmed him, left errors committed behind him and pushed on ahead unrelentlessly.

And that is what it takes if you are going to preserve same dominating purpose throughout your lifetime.

Winston never forgot this, even when he was in political wilderness that lasted ten years before being called upon to lead his nation against Hitler.

With this example as our guide, each of us need to ask ourselves:

What is my dominating purpose?

That's right.

If I was to ask you to give me in one sentence what is your dominating purpose is, could you answer me?

It is an important question, that any human being, who wants to not only exist on planet earth, but rather to contribute something of significance during their lifetime, needs to ask themselves until they find a satisfactory answer?

Some other ways of asking yourself same question are:

What is your passion?

What is your dream?

What is your burning desire?

What gets you more excited than anything else in this world?

Find answer to these questions and you will be at starting gates for fulfillment of your dominating purpose.

Don't waste another minute on planet earth without having this question settled in your mind once and for all.

You have been born for a purpose; a dominating purpose.

Motivational Memo for Week: A dominating purpose is pulsating heart of a successful life.

You can do it!

Peter Sinclair http://www.motivationalmemo.com '...where Quality Motivational Content is Paramount!'

© Peter Sinclair, 2000-2003 All rights reserved.