Have you ever found yourself unmotivated and procrastinating in your work or business? I know I have and for a long time that was the story of my life. I couldn’t get myself to do the things I needed to do to succeed in my business. I like most people was getting by, doing OK but there was no zest and no excitement!
The reason most of us have these feelings is that we have impotent dreams and goals. We are really not invested in what we truly desire so therefore we lack the drive to achieve. You see motivation is really a motive that is so compelling that it literally drives you to take action… It is motive-action!

So the big question is where do we find such a big motive? And the answer like most things in life is it’s already inside of you. You don’t actually find it you define it. So let’s do a powerful exercise that I’ve taught people for many years to define and get total clarity on what YOU truly desire.

In order to do this, you must have some fun, let go of preconceived notions of what you’ve been taught is not possible, and become a kid again.

Do you remember the TV show “I Dream of Jeannie”? (Many of you may be too young and will have to see the re-runs!) The show is about an army aerospace captain who finds a bottle with a Genie in it who wants to give him all his wishes—but he wants to do everything himself, the human way, and he only lets Jeannie the Genie do her magic stuff when they get into trouble and he can’t figure a way out with his intellect.

Sounds like a lot of us, right?  We have the ability to do magic with our lives, but we’re so afraid and full of unbelief that we don’t to use our power, and then when we get into trouble we go and beg God to fix it.

However, right now I’d like you to imagine that you have your own Genie, which will give you whatever you desire, and you can be, do, have and give anything you want in life.

Anything at all… what would it be?  So get out four sheets of paper right now and…

On the first one write BE

On the next one write DO

On the next one write HAVE

On the last one write GIVE

Before you do this exercise, I want you to understand something.

Over the years, many people have told me that their main problem is getting motivated.  I can relate, because as I already mentioned, that was my problem too, but I finally understood why.  My goals were too small. I was afraid of failing or getting hurt again. In other words, I had impotent goals and was lacking a big dream.

Your motivation must be so strong that it compels you to take action—literally drives you and moves you to take massive action to attain it.

Answer this: Can you get really fired up about just paying your bills or being able to eat at McDonalds once a week?  Can you get totally pumped and excited about just getting by, feeling “so-so” or being average?

Before anyone feels insulted, remember that God didn’t create average; he doesn’t make junk. It’s people who choose average. If you want to overcome average and be excited and motivated on a continual basis, you have to think big—you have to think of the possibilities.

To have tremendous motivation, you have to have tremendous goals that literally drive and transform you. It’s time to let go of your fears and preconceived notions.

The rules of this exercise are simple: don’t prejudge if it’s possible or probable, and simply let your imagination go wild like it did when you were a kid.

As you prepare to do this exercise, imagine you have your own genie or you can imagine God appears before you and tells you that He’s going to grant you all the desires of your heart in the key areas of your life (HAVE, DO, BE, GIVE) that you can write down in five minutes.  Use whatever works best for you just don’t hesitate or over-think or rationalize it.

I want you to understand how this exercise is supposed to go.  Have you ever brainstormed anything?  This is brainstorming.  You don’t start thinking, is 6,000 square feet too big? Should it be only 4,863 square feet? Is a Bentley too gaudy?  Should I just settle for a Cadillac?  What will people think of me if I have my own airplane?  Is it too decadent?  What about my own chef?  What about desiring a soul mate that is drop dead gorgeous, and loving, and giving, and…  am I asking too much?

Don’t second-guess yourself.  If you’ve ever thought about it in your wildest dreams, write it down. If you wanted it when you were a kid, write it down. Before you learned to feel guilty about having money and riches, did you think about having it?  Before you became a pious, self-sacrificing human being, did you think about having it? When you were a selfish child, did you want it?

When we were kids, we didn’t care. We were innocent and our inner knowing drove us to desire the best in life. Now that we’ve been programmed and worn down by guilt, we’ve allowed all this unworthiness to affect and control us and make us feel we don’t deserve the good things in life.  That’s why you have to go into this playing with the heart and mind of a child.

Let’s start with HAVE.

This is all about the “stuff.” It could be any material thing from houses and cars to jewelry, boats, expensive toys, to businesses, income, relationships or anything that you can physically obtain—whatever falls into the category of HAVE. Just make sure that you include a lot of material things for your fun and enjoyment.

As we get started, take a deep breath, close your eyes and really imagine God/the Universe has given you the ability to make all your dreams come true. You have been transformed into the person you know is inside you, the person you’ve always desired to be. Now, open your eyes and write down everything you’d like that person to HAVE!

Remember, don’t prejudge at all. You can always do that later. Let your imagination go wild, and even if you’re not sure that you desire it, if it pops into your mind, write it down.  You can always take it off the list later.  Don’t miss out on something that you may truly desire by second-guessing yourself.

Stop and take 5 minutes to do this now!

Now, take the paper with DO and write down everything you think you might want to DO.

Again don’t prejudge—don’t disqualify yourself.  Remember, God is giving you everything you can write down in the next five minutes because he loves you so much and you’re such a great person.  I’m serious; don’t let the guilt get you.  Today, be that little kid; you can always go back to being an adult later.  It’s time to let yourself go.

Let your imagination go wild!!!  Again, pull out all the stops.  You can do anything you want.  Maybe you want to…

Climb Mount Everest… sail around the world in a sailboat… Spend a couple months in Tahiti… Create a foundation for kids… Take six months and work on yourself spiritually… Build a huge business… Learn how to fly, sky dive, play the guitar or write a book… Produce your own movie or TV show, etc., etc.

What do you want to do?  Remember, this includes anything and everything, from playing sports or musical instruments to accomplishments in business.

Stop and take 5 minutes to do this now!

Let’s go to BE.  This is a really powerful area that massively impacts your life.  We’ve worked on Identity, but doing this exercise in this format actually helps to expand it, so go for it right now!

Write everything you even remotely think you might want to BE in your entire lifetime.

And, by the way, some of these things are interchangeable and wind up in multiple categories. For example: In the BE category, you might say, I want to be a millionaire. In the HAVE part you might say it differently, as I want to have $1 million or $5 million. And in the DO area you might say, I want to build a multi-million dollar business. These are all valid, based upon the way you process information.

So no prejudging—be a kid—imagine your personal Genie giving you your wildest dreams. By the way, that doesn’t just mean millionaire, billionaire or gazillionaire… It’s, I want to be a loving father or mother, or a great friend, or a great speaker, or the man/woman who changes the world, a best selling author, a public speaker, a famous musician, financially free, a philanthropist, an artist…  So, go for it now.

Stop and take 5 minutes to do this now!

Last but not least, take the paper with GIVE and write down everything you want to give or contribute.

For many people, this can be the most compelling goal because here is where you make a contribution to mankind and leave your mark on this world.

Write down everything you’d like to share or give—any type of contribution at all, whether it’s money or time or building an organization that impacts mankind, but don’t stop there. Consider what you’d like to give your spouse, children, parents, your friends or anyone else you care about.

Stop and take 5 minutes to do this now!

Wasn’t that fun? You should be really excited! So now, go through the list of desires you’ve written and determine when you truly want to achieve or realize each one. As you go through them, if you find that you wrote something you don’t really desire, just scratch it off.  Alternatively, if your juices got flowing by doing these exercises and you realize you’ve sold yourself short, you can increase the size of any of these desires.

As you go through the list, put the number 1, 2, 5 or 10 beside each item, indicating the time frame in years in which you’re committed to having it.

Put the number 1 beside the ones you’re committed to achieving in one year or less. Put a 2 beside those you’re committed to achieving in two years. Put a 5 beside those you’re committed to achieving in five years. Put a 10 beside those you’re committed to achieving in ten years or more.

So to be clear, you’re going to go through the four sheets of dreams you’ve written, HAVE, DO, BE and GIVE and you’re going to categorize each item based upon the time frame that you’re committed to achieving each one.

Please understand, this is not an exam… This is a gut check.  This is not a head thing; it’s not something you’re reasoning out and analyzing.  It’s a gut feeling as to when you really want to have, be, do or give those things you wrote down.  There are no right or wrong answers, except what you feel to be right.  Your inner knowing will tell you by how you’re feeling. Take a few minutes to do this now and in my next article I’m going to teach you a powerful strategy to make these dreams real for you in order to give you the power to actually achieve them, so until then…

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