A teacher I admired way back when, Bill Bodri, developed what he called the 6-M method for cultivating positive fortune.
He said that the 3 M’s that most people already used were Method, Measurement, and Motivation.
(1. Find a good set of means for achieving your desired outcomes, 2. empirically evaluate the success of your efforts and make tactical and strategic adjustments, and 3. find ways to maintain a consistent and sufficient level of determination and commitment in working towards the outcomes).
What he added to those 3 M’s were 3 additional M’s: Mantra, Merit, and Meditation.
All of these are ways of purifying the mind and maintaining positive inner hygiene so that positive energy is continually fed into and expressed out of the internal environment.
Mantra is consistent, repetitive, deep focus on sounds and internal meanings that represent Right Principles.
Merit is to act for the benefit and thriving of beings. This is a powerful way of establishing your high, positive value and of establishing an expansive heart and mind. An expansive heart and mind can accommodate bounty.
Meditation. These are methods for neutralizing, replacing, and/or calibrating the often difficult-to-observe instinctual and reflexive agendas that are at odds with attaining and enjoying our goals.
Those last 3 Ms, for him, assure that the first 3 Ms will lead to beneficial outcomes.