How Do I Manifest?!

by Josh
(Washington D.C.)

I've been visualizing and practicing gratitude with near religious fervor for about 8 months. I'm pretty certain at this point that the Law of Attraction has nothing to do with the world outside me; i.e. attracting things TO me. Rather, it seems more like it changes my own focus on what I am attracted TO. How do I get around this to truly observe that the Law of Attraction actually works and can be observed empirically?!