NOW I know why I don’t have a villa on the French Riviera, a million pounds in my bank account, or even that new kitchen I dream of. Turns out I should have been ‘manifesting’ all along.

Hollywood star Megan Fox has revealed that she has been manifesting her relationship with her fiance, US rapper Machine Gun Kelly, since she was four years old.

The couple shared their engagement news earlier this year with - what else? - an intimate video on Instagram showing Kelly getting down on one knee. Now Megan has told Glamour magazine: “(Kelly) is literally my exact physical type that I’ve been manifesting since I was four. I think I made him.

“My thoughts and intentions grew him into the person that he is. Who knows what he would’ve looked like or been like if it wasn’t for me?”

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. Pic: Alamy/PA Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. Pic: Alamy/PA

It seems to have worked out okay for Megan, but it’s probably just as well I didn’t ‘manifest’ my first crush into my dream husband, otherwise I’d be married to Lee Majors, the Six Million Dollar Man - and he’s now in his 80s.

The term ‘manifesting’, in case you’re wondering, is “calling in everything you desire and believing it can be so”. According to Anoushka Florence, founder of The Goddess Space (thegoddessspace.com), manifesting is basically visualising a dream, until you “feel it in your bones as though it has already happened”, then allowing it into your life. Much of this, she says, is rooted in having trust in yourself, your desires and the universe.

Thing is, I don’t really get the universe thing. How can we place such trust in something that nobody really understands? Even Stephen Hawking only had a theory. People who shout out to the universe for what they want are, I suspect, the same kind of people who walk on fire or believe in guardian angels. And don’t get me started on guardian angels...

If it really is as simple as believing that everything you desire can be so, if you really, really want it, and think about it hard enough, wouldn’t we all be doing it? Wouldn’t I have that new kitchen I can’t afford by now? I’ve spent enough time thinking about it!

Like anything else that looks too good to be true, it probably is.

But what do I know? Manifestation is a thing now, with lots of people using it to achieve personal goals. The process of manifesting or visualising goals has long been used by Olympians and other high achievers.

Royce Christyn - author of Scripting The Life You Want: Manifest Your Dreams With Just A Pen And Paper - believes manifestation is a simple but powerful way to get what we want. We can do this, he says, by scripting: simply making a list to figure out our desires, then using it to shape our future - “like writing your own movie script”.

I write lists pretty much every day, but a list that goes something like: ‘Buy teabags. Put recycling out. Do gas meter reading’ isn’t much of a movie script. Maybe I should write: ‘Win lottery. Write best-selling novel. Be 19 again’.

I guess the trick is knowing how to go about trying to achieve your goals. I’ll never be 19 again, and I’m pretty sure I won’t win the lottery, but I might kickstart writing a novel if I ever get around to booking a writers’ retreat.

As far as I can tell, setting your sights on a desired outcome, through mindfulness or visualisation techniques, is just a fancy way of having some self-belief and ambition, and planning the life you want. We’re often “manifesting our reality” without even knowing it, says Anoushka. But, as with so much of life, personal privilege, circumstances and chance are significant factors. Let’s face it, Megan Fox was always going to get her dream man because, well, she looks like Megan Fox.