Success is achieved through inner work. "As within, so without", says an ancient wisdom. Our life is an outward projection of our inner thoughts, feelings, expectations, visions, and dreams. All that we have, we have by the right of consciousness. We will never live above our ideas of who and what we really are. If something is alive within us, sooner or later it will be ours, and we will never lose it.

"I pray for you to prosper and to be in health, as your soul prospers" (3 John 2, Literal Translation), wrote an apostle. Each one of us demonstrates prosperity and wholeness to the degree in which ideas of prosperity and wholeness are rooted in our soul. Sick mentality manifests itself as sickness. Poverty mentality manifests itself as poverty. Wholeness mentality will eventually manifest itself as well body. Prosperity mentality will eventually manifest itself as abundance of all good things.

Unfortunately, most people rely on their actions rather on their awareness. But the way to greater success lies not in working harder, but in working smarter. This is clear enough to all who have eyes to see. Many of us know diligent and even talented persons that remain failures, no matter how much they toil. The natural question is, what's wrong with them? How can we explain their condition? Does it mean that life is unfair to them? Does it mean that God is unfair? Does it mean that such thing as "bad luck" really exists? No. The answer lies in the realization that our work can be successful only when it is done in the right consciousness.

"He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes" (Haggai 1:6, KJV), says the Bible of certain people. Each time they put money in their wallet or to their account, it disappears. Why? They don't have a consciousness of permanent prosperity.

How can we develop prosperity consciousness? There are at least three simple helpful practices, which can be used by any man or woman, of any background, in any circumstances. Countless numbers of people testify of their effectiveness. They are denials, affirmations, and visualizations.

Charles Fillmore wrote that denial is "the mental process of erasing from consciousness the false beliefs of the sense mind". Denial implies letting go of ideas which are not established in God's Truth, so that new and better ideas could take their place. If we don't practice denial while feeding ourselves with ideas of prosperity, we become double-minded, and therefore produce mixed results.

Deny negative appearances. Deny their reality, their permanence, and their power over you.

Deny ideas of powerlessness and irresponsibility that may come into your mind. Deny poverty mentality in all of its shapes and forms.

Deny ideas of guilt and fear. Deny your dependence on others in matters of guidance, provision, and self-expression. And then, affirm the opposite.

"Affirmation is a positive statement of Truth. By the use of affirmations we claim and appropriate that which is ours in Truth", stated Charles Fillmore.

As we affirm the Truth, we don't have to know all the details on how the things should work on our behalf. We can leave it up to God. What we need is to say "YES" to divine power and divine love, and to let them be manifested in our life as success and prosperity.

"Prosperity is letting the love of God flow through you without restriction. Wealth is an experience of the goodness of God", wrote Brad Jensen. We should not think that prosperity and success are less than spiritual.

Then, we need to visualize our desired conditions, not allowing our imagination to run wild. Let our inner eyes be fixed on our goals, and soon we will notice that they become more and more real to us - until there will come a moment of their physical appearance.