If thoughts and emotions alone could cause things to happen, thousands of my contemporaries would have married the Beatles in 1964. - Starhawk

Decide what is sacred to you, and put your best life energies at its service. Make that the focus of your studies, your work, the test for your pleasures and your relationships. Don’t ever let fear or craving for security turn you aside.” When you serve your passion, when you are willing to risk yourself for something, your greatest creative energies are released. Hard work is required, but nothing is more joyful

Clarity of intention is the key to creating a powerful skill or ritual.

Try writing your own myth, for your own area.