Most of the problem with manifesting what you want stems from you remembering the past when you didn't get what you want of when things were bad. Memories are thoughts about the past, while there is some joy there, many memory thoughts are not helpful and can undermine your creative power, so what we need to do is wipe the slate clean and treat every moment as the only one that matters.
What you must do is wipe or at least abandon thoughts that remind you of the past. The past cannot help you, it's gone, it's done, you can't go there and there really is nothing there to aid in the creation of a better life.
You must place observation in the right now and observe the better life, the million dollars, the loving relationship right now. Many people think of the past and transport those observations into the present and then they keep getting the same thing over and over again.
Cast aside the past, look at right now, what is there? What do you want to see there right now? See it and leave the past behind, you can't go there and even if you could would you really want to? Your life is right now, nowhere else, stop recreating the past and
create a now, that's where all the action is
Max