I am the Walrus, koo, koo, k’joob.  – The Beatles

Now that you have gone through this whole week reading perspectives on setting and achieving your goals, I’d like to put one final idea in place.

When you write a goal or resolution, usually it is stated from a perspective of lack. When you state “I want a better job,” it implies you don’t like the job you have.  When you state “I want more money,” it implies you feel you don’t have enough money. In other words, when you speak those two desires, you have an underlying emotional feeling of those two things being missing in your life.

I want to help you line up the underlying emotional feeling with the message. That way the desire or the goal has a much more powerful impact, and a greater chance of being realized. One way to do that is to speak in terms of the new situation already being in place.

Kody Bateman, the founder and CEO of SendOutCards speaks in his workshops and his book Promptings of “I am” statements. The idea is to speak and think and write as though what you are desiring has already come to pass. In other words, instead of saying I want to be successful in my business, say “I am successful in my business.” You can also state “I love the money I have,” or “I love the new attitude I have about my job, and the wonderful things that have come with it for my career.”

One example he uses is for people desiring a new home. He suggests writing “I am enjoying my new dream home.” Then write a detailed description of why and how you are enjoying it. Wrap yourself in the feeling of what that new dream home feels like, and how it will affect positively your life and the lives of people you love.

You will find that the power of the “I am” statement allows you to feel the new dream home in your current living situation, and then a new location will easily and effortlessly arrive for you, often when you least expect it.

Now go enjoy your new and improved life, koo koo k’joob!