A man sold a house. He listed it with brokers, and then formed a complete picture of that house already sold and himself moving out, etc. It worked.
What would have been a wrong way of operating such a thought-form? One of the worst things he could have done would have been to picture a certain prospect buying it. That would have violated the rule of not specifying the channel or person, time or method by which the thought-form shall operate.
Or my friend might have formed a picture of himself moving into a new home after leaving the one he had. That would not have been wrong, but it would have been too indirect, too remote. It is better to confine the thought-form to the immediate desire in hand.
Yet either of these two less desirable thought-forms would have been preferable to none. Most anyone would have tried to sell his house merely by mentioning its availablility at every opportunity to friends, by advertising it widely in the newspapers-by objectively seeking, in other words, the specific answer to his problem. In one case out of many this method, to be sure, would have worked. But a properly worked out thought form, if persisted in, will always work.
Do not worry if you find it difficult at first to frame your desires completely and simply. Your real meaning will be clear to the Universal Mind without lengthy and detailed instruction. But be sure you do have a definite idea yourself. If you find it hard to phrase, it may be that you have not yet as definite a desire as you think you have.