When we do rituals we always put offerings out as it is important to give something back to the universe or the deities/spirits worked with for whatever is being asked for and sometimes it is nice to give anyway, for no other reason than politeness to the Beings involved.
Quite a while ago now, I was a big fan of affirmations, where the idea is to affirm your wishes wants or needs tot he universe. There are many books on this subject, the most famous one is probably The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. I did personally find that keeping doing affirmations was successful up to a point, but it was time consuming because with all these things, to do it properly you have to keep doing it and make time for it.That is probably the sticking point where people give them up and then don't get their goal. I actually found some money in a supermarket basket, the same day after doing affirmations which bought us a nice fish supper at the time.
