Set aside quiet time for yourself on a regular basis to get real clear about what you really want to attract in your life.

Use this opportunity to ask yourself questions. Ask yourself: "how can I create more prosperity and abundance in my life?".

Once your head is clear, you will allow answers to come to you. Meditation is a great way to start clearing mind.

4. Appreciate life's abundance

Appreciating life's abundance is another way to opening yourself up to accept more abundance and prosperity in your life. When you fully appreciate what you have in your life, Universe has a way of giving you more.

Keep a gratitude journal and at end of each day, write down everything that you appreciate in your life. You'll begin to change your energy and vibration and become more internally aligned with what you want to create in your life.

5. Use prosperity affirmations

As you write your gratitude journal, it is an opportunity to write down prosperity affirmations as well. Affirmations are statements of acceptance that you use to manifest your destiny or what you want to create in your life. They are powerful, positive thoughts and words sent out to universe.

If you want to use affirmations to create positive changes in your life, then you must first BELIEVE that this is possible. It shouldn't be a half hearted "well, I'll give this a go and see what happens".

To make affirmations more effective, put as much positive energy in writing and saying them as possible. Visualise what you want to create and let this inform your prosperity affirmations.

When you cease operating from a position of lack, you start to create fertile conditions to make more informed decisions, identify greater opportunities and attract more abundance and prosperity into your life.

How big a problem is body image? Just check all these email offers to regrow my head fur, lose surplus luggage and enlarge various body mechanisms.

I knew body image industry was getting out of control when my wife called to me. "Honey, I got another of those emails."

"Which emails?" I asked.

"It asks how I compare to other men in locker room."

"Uh-huh..." I wondered where this was going.

"Well, I'm worried."

Uh-oh. Suddenly I was worried.

"I've never been there."

"Where?" I asked.

"In locker room."

"That's great news," I said with relief.

"But how will I know," she complained, "how I compare to other men in locker room."

"How do I compare?" That is question some evil sorcerer has planted in far too many hearts. My little brother was a body-building enthusiast in his youth. Now in his flabby years, he is too shy to wear a swimming suit in public ... except under his parka.

Why do so many people limit themselves by asking, "How do I compare?" Why do we allow other people to set our standards? Why don't we paint our own portraits? I wrote a short fairy tale on this in my book, Climb Your Stairway to Heaven. The fairytale is reprinted here: http://www.thehappyguy.com/Self-Esteem-Three-Pigs.html

So who sets these standards? TV, advertising, catalogs. Skimming through Sears catalogue, I discovered that women are supposed to be anorexic and men are not allowed to leave gym. Thin hair is a no-no, and gray hair is out of question. And nobody in Catalogue Land ever ages. What an education! I guess I'm just not normal.

But I don't have time to worry about being normal. I have to keep my eyes open for police officers. After shedding it's fur coat, my face is once again flouting those public decency ordinances.