If you find yourself recycling the same old goals year after year and feeling stuck, try Declarations on for size.  The first step to moving from a goal to an abundant declaration is Capacity.

In my book, Coaching Into Greatness, I define Capacity as the belief that you already have within you all that you want, need, and choose.  People with a high Abundance Intelligence (AQ) embrace this concept.  Capacity is a conscious pattern found in the Abundance Aptitude of Self-Worth. Instead of looking at yourself as less than perfect, flawed, or needing to be fixed, you see your capacity for greatness.  When you were born, you were born with a DNA of Greatness.  Your life is a process of living into that greatness.

When goal's fail, it is because of the focus on becoming something.  Capacity says you already are that person.  You may not be actualized yet, but that capacity for who you think you should become is already there.  People spend their entire lives in a pursuit to become someone, when what they really are is more than enough if they would recognize and live into it.

Declarations declare to the world that you already are your goal.  I can hear you come back with the classic objection to this idea of Capacity.  "But how can I be great?  I don't have the job I want, the degree, the relationship, the house . . ." and on and on and on.

Capacity is not just the recognition that you are standing on top of a treasure chest of gold.  It is owning that you are the treasure chest. The gold is inside you, waiting to be invested.

Carole Zimmerman, one of the AQ Pioneers, likened the idea of Capacity to the capacity of our brain.  It is said that we only utilize at most 10% of our brain's capacity.  Does that mean that the other 90% doesn't exist because we fail to use it? This is exactly the same concept with our greatness.

What % of your Greatness Capacity are you utilizing?