I am manifesting a healthy body.

Manifesting has a reputation built entirely on the vision board and none at all on the middle, which is where it actually lives.

The middle is an appointment booked for a Tuesday morning you'd rather sleep through. It's the trainers set by the door the night before, so that tomorrow-morning-you doesn't get a vote in the matter.

Wanting it clearly does matter — that's how you know which way to point. But what arrives is assembled out of the unglamorous arrangements you made in advance, on days you didn't feel inspired at all.