Very achievable.
Gently, progressively (if you go too fast you'll feel discouraged and like its "not working") do as highly intelligent people do.
Highly intelligent people welcome problems, cause they get an inherent satisfaction out of solving them. They love to read and they love logic puzzles and they rarely stop thinking. Television is often boring (unless its a program that stimulates them to greater thinking) so more often they're doing something other than watching TV.
Focus more on "I'm good at solving problems" and "I'm getting really good at memorizing things" and "I'm getting faster and faster at figuring things out" with your affirmations, rather than just affirming "I have a high IQ."
Combining practice in brain skills with affirmations and visualizations becomes a kind of feedback loop: you get better and better at problem-solving and speed of processing, which makes it easier to believe those affirmations, which enables you to get better and better at cognition, and on it goes.
Find some interesting subject and enjoy reading about it in depth.
I think there's some brain training games for the Wii. There's also one on Facebook. I like the logic puzzle magazines from Dell.
Also try something new that your brain hasn't done before. If you don't play a musical instrument, for example, teach yourself to play a song on the keyboard (having to use both the right hand and left hand seem to especially enhance learning). Take a drawing class. Or quilting. Or snowboarding. Learn new stuff. As your learning, at night before you sleep visualize yourself performing the new task.
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