There is one more way as in my case sometimes wishing merely does not work, So I use beads for chanting my affirmations and when you do a mala of even 11 beads at least 3 times a day the way mind responds and the impact is actually huge. Wishes keep on changing but writing down and affirming with count goes a long way as per my personal experience and VK helps a lot in my affirmations and specially visualization.