This isn't about fantasy or dreaming, the simple question can be used to give you a much more profound answer with regards to the direction of your life. No doubt you have probably been asked this question numerous times in your life but have you really thought about it more deeply.

In it's essence the question with what you would do with your life if you had a million dollars can be utilized to shape your purpose and goals. If you knew that you didn't have to worry about paying the bills, keeping up with the mortgage payments and putting food on the table how different would your life be.

If you were to for example ask this question to people you would consider successful inevitably their answer would be "nothing would change." In other words they are living their life the way they had pictured it, they are fulfilled and are finding what they do so motivating that they couldn't think of anything better that they would fill their time with. Sure they might go on a few vacations with their millions but they would more probably than not settle back to the lifestyle they love before long.

So if your answer was to quit your job and go travel around the world what would you then do upon your return. If you were to have an opportunity to do whatever you wanted, something that you love passionately, a hobby you in all intensive purposes would be able to undertake it.

What other areas of your life aren't you happy with right now. The greatest disappointment in life is to have a dream but never having the courage to act on it until it's to late.

Why not set aside a moment on the weekend, take a notepad and pen and sit yourself by your local park and ask yourself the question "What would you do with your life if you had a million dollars?"

The goals and ideas you write down can now form the basis of your goals that you can now focus on. Why not create the intention that from today onwards you will begin to daily take an action that would get you closer to living the life you have described in the exercise above. You are the only person that has control over the life you live so why not take action and get started.