| There is no guarantee that I will ever | | | | to the income and net worth I desire to |
| achieve my life's dreams and go on to live a | | | | generate. If I am a multi-millionaire and |
| hugely successful existence. In fact, unless | | | | have already attained financial freedom, I |
| I know precisely what "success" means to me, | | | | shall award myself the maximum score of 10. |
| I will never be a winner during this | | | | However, if I am on skid row, with zero |
| lifetime. Knowing is the key. Success is not | | | | savings, high indebtedness and low earnings, |
| only reached by those who keep their fires of | | | | perhaps I warrant a score of only 1 or 2 at |
| desire burning strong and who keep trying and | | | | most. |
| trying again until they succeed, but it is | | | | |
| reached by those who know what they desire. | | | | Business |
| Those who attain greatness display the | | | | |
| winning character trait of perceptiveness. | | | | How is the success of my business; or do I |
| This is the shrewd ability to know what | | | | even have a business as such? I shall give |
| "success" means to them. | | | | myself a score from 1 to 10 for this area |
| | | | based on how I rate today compared to my |
| Success can be defined as the progressive | | | | ideal business scenario. |
| realization of specific objectives. As | | | | |
| success relates to my life, this is the | | | | Career |
| continual attainment of my own clearly | | | | |
| defined desires. Like many people though, I | | | | I shall give myself a score from 1 to 10 for |
| may not yet have determined exactly what | | | | the career area of my life. This score must |
| success means to me, therefore I have little | | | | accurately reflect my occupational status |
| chance of attaining it until my goals are | | | | today relative to how I see myself in an |
| clearly set. Success, it can be said, is to | | | | ideal future. Do I have the job of my dreams |
| decide exactly what I do want, establish | | | | or am I unemployed? Depending upon where I am |
| specific plans of action, and then take | | | | right now professionally, this will dictate |
| enthusiastic action to achieve what I most | | | | my rating. The higher the score, the more |
| desire. However, to attain a lifetime of | | | | successful I am career-wise. And, likewise, |
| success, some form of measuring system needs | | | | the lower the score, the more dissatisfied I |
| to be in place to gauge how successful I am | | | | am vocationally. |
| presently compared to how successful I want | | | | |
| to be. For the Empowered Millionaire, this | | | | Mental |
| measuring system is the PEP Rating. | | | | |
| | | | If I am mentally very alert with an excellent |
| Success is not necessarily being the best or | | | | memory and sharp intellectual skills, I shall |
| having the most or being number one or | | | | rank myself very highly here with perhaps a |
| finishing first. Real success is a journey of | | | | score of 8 or 9 or 10. However, if I am |
| continuous improvement and is found in doing | | | | mentally dull and have psychological fatigue |
| the best that I possibly can in all endeavors | | | | with a poor memory, I should give myself a |
| with which I am involved. Fortune definitely | | | | low score. |
| favors the person who assesses where he or | | | | |
| she is now and uses this information to make | | | | Social |
| well-versed decisions to successfully guide | | | | |
| their future. Therefore, in my quest for | | | | If all my social objectives have been met and |
| success, I must learn to employ this same | | | | I consider myself presently to be hugely |
| technique of analyzing my present position to | | | | successful within this arena, I shall give |
| make better judgments for the future course | | | | myself a high score here. Whereas, if my |
| of my life. The lesson here in this PEP | | | | social life is a huge disappointment relative |
| Rating exercise is to give all ten areas of | | | | to my ideal, my score of perhaps 1 or 2 or 3 |
| my life a score and then combine all scores | | | | should accurately reflect this fact. |
| into a final total that accurately reflects | | | | |
| my current status. This will certainly | | | | Spiritual |
| increase my chances for success and lessen | | | | |
| those of an unfavorable outcome. | | | | I must give myself a score dependent on |
| | | | whether I am spiritually satisfied right now |
| To be hugely successful on an ongoing basis, | | | | and consider myself to be highly enlightened |
| I need to measure where I am in the ten areas | | | | or whether I am divinely disillusioned and |
| of my life at this precise moment in time | | | | nowhere near enlightenment. |
| with where I desire to be at a specific point | | | | |
| in the future. By knowing where I am | | | | Family |
| presently compared with where I say I want to | | | | |
| be, this will enable me to more accurately | | | | Have all my family aspirations been met and |
| assess my efforts. The way that I measure | | | | am I living a joyful life of blissful |
| where I am now is by way of calculating my | | | | contentment with my kin? If so, my score here |
| PEP Rating. PEP (which stands for "Personal | | | | will be very high. If not, a low score will |
| Empowerment Percentage") is the evaluation | | | | accurately reflect this status. |
| system that I shall use to determine if I am | | | | |
| on course to design my ultimate lifestyle. By | | | | Material |
| way of my PEP Rating, I shall give each of | | | | |
| the ten areas of my life an individual score | | | | This material area is an extremely personal |
| from one to ten based on how that area | | | | one in that the goals I establish here will |
| presently parallels with my ideal scenario. | | | | vary enormously depending upon how materially |
| | | | voracious my appetite is and how successfully |
| To calculate my own PEP Rating, I must | | | | I have fed my materialistic hunger? However, |
| analyze the ten areas of my life and follow | | | | the higher my level of contentment today with |
| these two steps: | | | | the material possessions I have accumulated, |
| | | | the higher my score. And, likewise, the lower |
| 1. Give each area a mark from 1 to 10 for how | | | | my present level of satisfaction, the lower |
| my life is today compared with my ultimate | | | | the rate I will give myself here. |
| ideal. It is vital that it is my ideal, not | | | | |
| that of someone else. I should not judge | | | | Adventure |
| myself against the world's best in that area. | | | | |
| | | | If I am living an exciting, adventurous |
| 2. Add these marks together. This number out | | | | lifestyle in keeping with my ideal, I should |
| of a maximum total of one hundred represents | | | | rank myself very highly here with perhaps a |
| my PEP Rating. | | | | score of 8 or 9 or 10. However, if my |
| | | | recreational time holds no exhilaration and |
| There is no right or wrong rating. I will | | | | is dull, I should give myself a low score of |
| find that as my life's circumstances change, | | | | perhaps 1 or 2 or 3. If I feel |
| so my PEP Rating will also change. The lower | | | | middle-of-the-road and my life ranks only |
| the number, obviously the more room for | | | | average adventurously, my score would be |
| improvement I have. Correspondingly, the | | | | around the middle mark of 5 only. |
| higher the number, the more successful my | | | | |
| life presently. | | | | To live a balanced life, should I make it a |
| | | | new winning discipline of mine to check my |
| Physical | | | | PEP Rating on a regular basis? Yes, as this |
| | | | will help me to compare just how |
| I shall give myself a score from 1 to 10 for | | | | well-balanced my entire life truly is, and in |
| the state of my health and general physical | | | | which areas I require most improvement. As |
| condition today relative to my ideal. If I am | | | | one of my ultimate objectives, I shall strive |
| supremely fit, with an excellent body, and | | | | to attain harmony and fulfillment in all ten |
| always feel invigorated and full of energy, I | | | | areas of my life. I must not be too |
| should give myself a high score of 9 or the | | | | narrow-minded, focusing on improving just two |
| maximum 10 points. However, if I am | | | | or three areas. Instead I shall expand my |
| overweight, out of shape and in constant | | | | horizons and seek continual progress within |
| ill-health, my rating here may only be 1 or 2 | | | | all ten areas. |
| or 3. It is up to me to decide upon what | | | | |
| score I warrant based on how my health really | | | | # # # |
| is today. | | | | |
| | | | James Lee Valentine is an "Empowering Author |
| Financial | | | | Extraordinaire" having written more than |
| | | | sixty books on personal empowerment and |
| I shall give myself a score from 1 to 10 | | | | financial mastery now published in twelve |
| based on my current financial status relative | | | | countries worldwide. |