Set a sincere intention that is mutually beneficial to everyone involved.
Repeat it and hold it as an offering to life, to a higher power other than your ego.
Hold it in your heart like a sacred offering or prayer.
Drop your expectations and be open to possibilities.
Then do your part.
Exert effort towards your intention.
Do the work to try to fulfill it!
Be patient. Rome really was not built in a day!
Finally, step aside
and be open to life as it constructs its own fulfillment of your intention,
something usually in detail different than you ever could have imagined,
and much more wondrous and fulfilling.
The Every Day Yogi 