"You are "here" (your life now) and you want to go "there" (your dreamed-of life). And because both are physical places, it would seem that you must manipulate the physical world to go from "here" to "there."
Aha! This is the ultimate illusion.
Physical places are simply mirages, reflections of an inner world, the world of your thoughts. So to get from "here" to "there," you must do your manipulating within."