I heard Jim Carrey did this prior to his success on Living Color, which led to his success with The Mask. I figure if it worked for him, it might work for me. The point is that if you can visualize yourself living with financial abundance it is much more likely you will attain that state in the future. Second, reduce frivolous spending. What I mean is that if we're paying too much money out it is difficult to get ahead, financially.
Many people have too much credit card debt.
If we can reach a state where our credit card it payed off each month we enable our money to start working for us. Most news is on the internet. If you are reading this article, it is likely you have access to the internet on a regular basis and can therefore get news this way. I have programmed a Yahoo home page with the news content I want, and for cover-story news I just log into the general MyYahoo page without putting in my password and I can receive anything about the current Presidential news I want to read. I cancelled cable, many magazines, and dropped my membership in one club three years ago and really haven't missed them all that much.