You can have everything you want if you can put your wishes into terms believable to your subconscious.
The real trick here isn't positive thinking—it's that your subconscious has its own auditing system, rejecting goals it deems implausible. A person earning $40,000 who suddenly insists "I will make $5 million next year" hits a credibility wall their deeper mind won't cross, but "I'll develop skills to earn $60,000 within three years" feels like a plausible narrative their entire being can work toward. Maltz understood that willpower alone fails when your unconscious mind treats your ambitions as fiction. This explains why the most successful people reframe their goals not as fantasies but as logical extensions of effort—the language matters as much as the desire.