Science tells us that we can only perceive, or literally see, that which we can first conceive. There must be a firing of recognition in the neurons of our brains, either in imagination or in actuality, for us to register an object as a real. If you can't imagine driving that luxury car or sitting on that white sandy beach then it stands little chance of becoming true.

Over 400 years ago when Portuguese explorer Magellan's fleet sailed around the tip of South America he stopped at a placed called Tierra del Fuego in modern day Chile. Coming ashore he met some local natives who had come out to see the strange visitors. The ship's historian documented that when Magellan came ashore the natives asked him how he had arrived. They assumed that the sailors were gods dropped from the sky. Magellan pointed out to his fully rigged sailing ships at anchor off the coast. None of the natives could see the ships. Because they had never seen ships before they had no reference point for them in their brains, and could literally not see them with their eyes.

How can this affect us in our sophisticated modern lives? Surely with the availability of 24hr television and exposure to the Internet we have seen all there is to see? Well maybe not, financial expert Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best selling Rich Dad Poor Dad series, explains that the only way to improve our financial reality is by firstly raising our financial IQ. By firstly becoming aware of the numerous paths to prosperity and the abundance of opportunities to create wealth we can in time learn how to take these opportunities.

John D Rockefeller was quoted as saying "I have ways of making money that you know nothing of".