John, you are "here" (your life now) and you want to go "there" (your dreamed-of life). And because both are physical places, it would seem that you must manipulate the physical world to go from "here" to "there."
This is the ultimate illusion.
Physical places are simply mirages, reflections of an inner world, the world of your thoughts. So to get from "here" to "there," begin your manipulations within, by thinking of your desired end results, as if they’d already come to pass.
A thought worth dwelling on,
The Universe