Thanks to Barbara for sharing this gem from Abraham that provides additional insight about using the grid for successful deliberate creation

including these pieces:

 

what creation is: you're just observing, throwing stuff out there, finding a way to line up with it, and as it fills in you observe the specifics.  That's what creation is.

 

Pay attention to how you feel; not the thought that caused the feeling - but how you feel.  Because if you're focused on how you feel, then you're tending to your grid.  When you tend to your grid, the details will fill in, and when they do you can focus on them.

 

The thought causes the feeling but when you focus on the feeling then the thought comes.  That's what attraction is.  It's about preparing yourself vibrationally: "I'm going to vibrationally ready myself for the manifestations I seek."  That's the best description of deliberate creation.