Yes, absolutely, practice is the key!

I don't know a single person who would expect to become a master of playing a mainstream musical instrument overnight and yet many of those same people expect mastery of manifesting principles to happen in an instant.

And if it doesn't happen in an instant, they tell themselves (and everyone else who will listen) that it doesn't work...and they'll spent a lot more time doing that than they ever did in practicing their application of the principles. Funny lot, human beings :)

I practice consistently everyday even with really trivial things, even just for the fun of it, just to see what happens, even with things I don't even want sometimes just to see what happens. Never be afraid to experiment with these natural laws. They are as consistent as gravity, or as the sun rising every morning and they work just as impersonally.

From time to time, you get members of the "you are not worthy" doom-and-gloom crowd appearing and trying to place fearful thoughts into people's minds that "bad things" will happen if you dare to use these natural laws in a trivial fashion. But who decides what is trivial anyway? Them?

If I throw a ball in the air, does the Law of Gravity sometimes refuse to make it come down again because the reason for throwing it up was trivial? Absurd idea, and almost uniformly promulgated by people who haven't been able to get what they want in life and now want to make themselves feel better by ensuring that others don't get what they want either. When you come across a Naysayer, just say Nay :)

Natural Law is Natural Law...if it works once, it will work again, and again, and again. And, if it doesn't, it's not that the law is defective, it's just that our understanding of it needs tweaking. If you throw a brick in the air and it comes down and hits you on the head and causes you a serious injury, it's not gravity that's defective - what's defective is your idea of what will happen when bricks land on your head :)

So now onto the practicalities....how to practice?

For me, I use a simple idea that I originally heard in one of Burt Goldman's courses. I have a little in-the-moment signal that I use to pass messages to my inner being. The signal is simply touching the tip of my tongue to the top of the roof of my mouth and saying in my mind what I would like to happen.

To set it up in the first place, you just announce to yourself in your thoughts (once only) that whenever you do that action, you want your Inner Being (or whatever label you prefer) to pay attention and act on the request as quickly as possible.

And, as an example of the use of it...let's say I'm driving into a town and I want to manifest a parking place in a particular spot. Before I get to the location, I press the tip of the tongue against the roof of my mouth and say in my mind (as though talking to someone who is going to deal with it): "I would like a parking place near (SHOP NAME)" and then I release my tongue back to normal. And that's it. If I want to be more specific, I add extra specificness to the request.

Invariably, what I want is there. And the more you trust the process - and you will after a few successful results - the more effective it becomes.

Simple process - works for anything and everything. It's so quick and easy that it's a crime not to practice every day with it :)

As you build up confidence with these trivial day-to-day events in your life, you'll naturally start to build up confidence in the more difficult things. But, to be honest, the only difference between what you consider to be easy and what you consider to be difficult is just your own judgement of the situation...to the Universe, a parking place and manifesting a new job are no different...only we in our minds make them different.

As Abraham have said many times, it is just as easy to manifest a castle as a button.

And here's one final tip that I've found to be true again and again in my life...when you practice more and more and you start getting "amazing" results (which you will), don't make it a big deal that something "amazing" just happened. Very often I never even mention to anyone (not even my wife) that anything "amazing" just happened. I'll just smile inwardly to myself, enjoy the feeling in the moment, and move on with my life.

By allowing the "amazing" to become just an everyday occurrence in your life, you are setting yourself up to allow more of the "amazing" to happen. To understand why, consider the analogy of the person who is a millionaire vs the person who isn't

Hope this is all useful to someone :)