You may think that attracting prosperity sounds like a phrase used by people who believe in meditating two hours a day, not eating meat and communicating with spirits with biblical names. And while there are some New Age and New Thought gurus who do all those things, in reality attracting prosperity into your life is much simpler than that.

That's not to say it's easy. There are several ways to do it wrong, which only means you won't attract the prosperity you deserve. There is no option for pessimism when it comes to trying to attract good things into your life. There is no way to do it wrong and actually attract distress.

Even just by trying methods to attract prosperity, you start spinning wheels both in your head and in the universe that can help good things happen in your life. Because the first step in making good things happen for you is a change in your attitude. This can affect every part of your life, if you let it.

Instead of seeing things through a negative lens, you need to see them through a positive one. Use the analogy of a glass that is half full of water. Instead of seeing it half empty or half dirty, learn to see it half full. If your dinner burns, don't see it as a ruined meal, realize that the pans will still be fine after you wash them.

This shift in perception leads you to stop seeing negativity and limitations and see the positive side of everything. Prosperity attraction is based on the principle that what you believe in and surround yourself with will attract similar things. If you spend your day noticing what's wrong with everything, you're going to attract problems.

But if you spend your day noticing the good side of every situation, you will attract prosperity. This may sound far-fetched to some people, but when you focus on being positive and seeing the good in things, your attitude will change.

Once this change in attitude occurs, it is easier to automatically see the positive even in a very bad situation. When you begin to see the positive things, you are presented with opportunities that you would have missed if you had focused on the negative.

When viewed this way, attracting prosperity seems less like a strange metaphysical system than good common sense. When you see an opportunity you might have missed with a more negative attitude, it's as if you've attracted the potential for prosperity by seeing an opportunity where you wouldn't have before.

And when you are faced with an opportunity, you can take advantage of it where you couldn't before. Even if it was something you might have noticed before but hadn't acted on when you had a more negative attitude, with a positive attitude you can act on it and believe it will work in your favor. Attracting prosperity becomes second nature when you believe that good things are possible.