That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time.
You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.
It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for prayer and affirmation.
These things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
Spend as much of leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind of a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.
Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly.
If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.
In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.
Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.