In this week's call, From Illusion to Doing What You Can Do, we explored the Top 5 Secrets to Setting and Keeping Abundant Goals.  In the upcoming weeks, I will blog about each of the 5 Secrets.

Earlier this month, I blogged about how goals are often feeders to our illusions--especially when they are vague, comfortable, unrealistic, and inherited.  In this way, your goals are like having a pile of unlit matches lying around, with no catalyst to set them afire. 

Dormant greatness. 

Missed opportunity. 

If you find your goals have one or more of the elements I just mentioned, I suggest reframing your approach and making a shift to Declarations.

Declarations are public promises put into action.  In my book Coaching Into Greatness, I provide a 3 step formula for designing the ultimate declaration.  Declarations differ from affirmations in that there is an equal balance between declaring your greatness (I am a bestselling author . . .) owning your greatness, living your greatness by doing what you can do, and then letting go to allow life to unfold through you.

Here's the key to understanding the difference between Goals and Declarations:  goals are things to strive for, to become, to achieve.  Declarations embrace what you already have, to live into who you already are.  I will explore this in depth in my next post in this mini-series.

What do you want to declare today?