I agree with Akashic regarding the feeling. I think that if you can absolutely and completely reproduce the feeling that you were to get if you were already in possession of the thing you're trying to manifest, then you're sending out a message that's unmistakeable. Yes, the words are important (personal experience has taught me that there's a LOT of truth in the saying 'be careful what you wish for') but I think the LOA is much more about matching your energy - emotional energy and the energy generated by action - with the energy of whatever it is you want to attract, than it is about sentence construction, semantics and grammatical nitpicking.
Generating the feeling first will put you on the right path much quicker. If, in your example, you'd have generated the feeling you got when shown how to make money, you'd either have immediately realised that this wasn't what you were really asking for, or you'd just have generated the feeling that you actually already had lots of money, instantly sending out the message you really wanted the universe to hear.
However, the ability to genuinely produce such feelings in response to events that aren't actually happening is much harder than sentence construction. Like most other things in life, this is why the rewards for your efforts are greater.
My take on it all, anyway
