This is an excellent topic. Thank you for posting it.
I use Silva Mind Control Method to go to Alpha and do very serious visualization. Okay, that is meditation, also.
I have achieved so much in my life from goal setting, visualization, and meditation; my loving wife, our homes, our cars, my health, our careers, our children, our education, our vacations, and the list goes on and on.
Most recently I used the power of goal setting (also known as the "Laws of Attraction" and Quantum Physics) to acquire my new Escape hybrid and our dream home in Florida. I visualized the feel and smell of my hybrid as I pulled into the 3 car garage, then opened the hatch to take out the swimming pool supplies for the pool.
Today, I get a little over 50 mpg in my hybrid SUV in my daily commute to work and we close on our new 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 3 car garage home with a large solar heated swimming pool in a gated community next month.
Well, I read 'Think and Grow Rich' some two years ago. It's ideas are so exact, everything I visualize and desire just comes to me on it's own. OF course, sometimes I have to take actions while sometimes it just manifests on it's own.
I also see the 'the Secret' every fortnight. It keeps me going.