When I daven and do all these segulos over the Holiday, I first try to ask G-d to grant a sweet new year to all those Jews in less fortunate situations than myself before asking for my own year. I just think that it’s an opportunity that G-d is giving us to ask for things and He will listen, and there are so many Jews who have much more difficult lives than me, or won’t be praying at all over the Holiday, and I feel obligated to ask that these people should be granted wonderful new years before I bring up myself, since they need a positive change in their lives so much more than I do.
I don’t know if this is the right thing to do, but I feel right doing it.