I have launched the desire, have the vision board (vision diary actually), I have also placed the written intention into a special box and locked it away. 1A.I rock around from day to day with my inner dialogue telling me I am financially free and working for myself (despite getting up before dawn to start the first of my 2 lowly jobs instead of walking through to my LOA home office in my LOA house.)

This is the main paragraph in your question that seems to give away where most of your problems may reside. In my opinion it is easy to see how you contradict yourself with certain statements, which means that you are probably keeping your manifestations away because of this.

I think the key to using the Manifesting Box exercise is that it allows for an easy way to put a desire out there, and let it go for the universe to work out. Forgetting about the desire releases inner resistance of noticing it is not yet here. When you can forget, you are essentially letting go and allowing what you want to come that much faster.

Which leads to my next point. If you also have a vision diary that you look at every day or maybe even very often, then you are essentially not using the box method in the most effective way. You are bringing the desire to your conscious awareness consistently, which pretty much cancels out the effectiveness of forgetting about it and letting it go.

I would suggest that you decide which process feels better to you and go with just one of them for the same particular desire you are asking for.

If you are going around day to day telling yourself that you are financially free and working for yourself, and you really truly feel good and believe that is who you really are, then that is great.

When the continuation of your sentence is, (despite getting up before dawn to start the first of my 2 lowly jobs instead of walking through to my LOA home office in my LOA house.)

The second part of your statement points to the empty and unemotional affirmation that was the first part of the statement. You cannot match the vibration of the reality that you desire when you consciously bring up the things that you don't want in very same sentence. With the second part of that statement you are giving out a vibration of yearning instead of having. You can't focus on what you don't want and receive what you do want at the same time.

To yearn is to wish for something that you don't truly believe you can have. When you have something, there is no doubt whatsoever that it exists right this very moment. No matter what you face in your day to day life, have it be bills, money, your job, or other people, you need to get in the feeling of having what you want right now and let go of focusing on what you dislike.

What you desire exists in a parallel reality right this very minute. When you are not vibrating in a high frequency (feeling good) you cannot match the parallel reality of the desire you want that felt good when it was launched. Two opposing frequencies will not come together when they are in two different places.

Be and live the reality that you desire. The circumstances that surround you in your life don't matter. They do no create physical matter. Only your inner state of being matters. Your inner state of being creates physical matter.

Step 3: In aligning our dominant focus regarding that topic with that of the vibrational potential that now exists as a result of the question being asked, we allow the answer to enter and manifest within our reality (i.e. we get our desire)

The desire is achieved by simply feeling good most of the time and allowing the universe to do it's job without worry or frustration.

I could attempt to write an answer in my own words, but then I would be only re-writing what has already been said. Allow me then to quote Bashar in all his straightforwardness and simplicity.

See, feel, and be. Everything we have said folds up into three steps. It’s that easy. See what you want. Feel it. Know it. Desire it. Then Be it. Act it. Do only that thing in the way that is representative of who you want to be. See it. Feel it. Be it…one, two, three.

Your question regarding my comment about focusing in two different areas came from this answer and it’s follow up (part 2 of this answer); Both are posted below.

The part you are referring to is in my response to Michaela’s question in the comments section of the second answer, which I later moved to the bottom with the comment "added later"
It might be a good idea for you to read those answers first, because I have not elaborated on those ideas anywhere else.

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/2346/they-say-that-old-habits-die-hard-can-we-make-it-easy-instead-how/2347

And it’s continuation here

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/2352/how-is-the-attention-used-in-manifestation-or-is-it-used/2361

In my comments I mentioned that in the short term we must work on attracting our immediate goals and on the long term we must become the person who has already accomplished those goals (in our minds)
That long-term mind set must exist throughout the journey filled with small goals.

What I am referring to as, “To become the person who normally experiences that”, and Stingray’s, “put it into a box and forget about it”, is exactly the same principle.
They are just different ways of getting to the same concept.
What Stingray did was to follow his own intuition and inner being to develop his own understanding and way of explaining it.
He essentially developed his own technique and his own language to convey that technique.
I am sure it took him a long time to develop it.

This is what we encourage all of you to do.
Your normal state is to learn from your own experience and develop your own understanding of it.
You are supposed to write your own instruction book on how it works from your perspective.
When you are a third person judging our words you have no choice but to make comparisons between each person’s concepts. Remember that we developed our understanding for our own personal use, and not for teaching others.

This is why stingray is giving away his wisdom without charging a fee for it.
I am asking you to go on and develop your own technique on how the law of attraction works for you.

Finally, a fundamental concept in attraction is the understanding that “Now” is the only moment in which existence is possible.
This means that, all the envisioning and attracting is within NOW.
I had an entire answer regarding that part of the puzzle her.

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/4235/so-what-is-the-now/4236

What you are trying to accomplish is a goal that takes at least a year or more to complete. Meanwhile, you have to start with something small and insignificant just to prove to yourself that attraction with consciousness actually works.

Take a toothpick for example.
Imagine a toothpick appearing in front of you and hold on to this vision.

Now let us say the following three things happened over the next three days.
On the first day, you saw a movie on TV and one of the characters was using a toothpick.
On the second day, you were shopping and while you reached out to your item, you noticed that the shelf above had a sign for toothpicks but the shelf was empty.
On the third day, you bought a sandwich from a local vendor and there was a toothpick holding the sandwich together.

Now which example do you think was the proof that the Law of attraction works.
If you said it was the last example, you are wrong!

All of them were successful results of the Law of Attraction.
Now if you have a problem with that, then you still need to comprehend the fundamental principles behind the law of attraction.
Figuring that out took me many years.

We are not dealing with a “get rich quick” technique here.
We are dealing with why life is the way it is.

I have to constantly re-asses my understanding of this phenomenon when things do not work.
Most of the time things do not work.
I get stuck just like you got stuck and I also have to ask someone for help.
The difference is that, I reach towards my "SELF" for help.
That “self” makes me co-incidentally stumble on the solution. (Attraction at work)

The perfect teacher that can guide you is your “SELF”.
This is the one source that you will not second guess or analyze with questions.

Therefore, you can definitely attract the experience that you are envisioning right now.
That destination of your choice has thousands of steps between you and it.

While keeping your destination alive in your mind every time you think of it, you must also work on the next step towards it, which must also exist in your imagination as if you have already succeeded at it.

This is what I meant by keeping your focus alive in two different places at once.

Dear Smellingtheroses, Corys answer was very insightful and gives you the reason why you arn't manifesting that which you want. This happens to most of us normaly at times of pressing need which makes us anxious to manifest for we have to have that which we seek to be able to survive. Of course this pressing worry only takes things further away from us. Like Cory said you first have to get out of your own way and give the universe a chance.

His words "Be and live the reality you desire" is what will bring your cheque book much needed relief. To manifest money you not only have to become wealthy on the inside you have to feel it until you can project this wealth onto your outer world. The moment you can do this you shall attract wealth into your life.

Yes I know this isn't easy when one has pressing worry about finances and our mind keeps those nigling doubts in place for after all we are human and it is sometimes difficult to truly and authentically feel good when our physical reality is anything but.

You need a few tricks up your sleeve to make yourself feel good especialy before you go to speak with the bank manager. You need to lift your vibration and keep it that way for as long as possible. For me music does it every time. I put on a happy tune and dance arround the house while internaly feeling that I am that which I want and it works most of the time. No I'm not rich but if and when I have a financial need I do this and it works for me. Good luck.