What do you mean when you say you’ve manifested something?

My friend Renelle West wrote on Facebook: “I have a question. What do you mean when you say you’ve “manifested” an event or a circumstance? I’ve heard people say it when they had a financial windfall, and when they experienced an unpleasant or unwanted event. How would you define the word “manifest” as you use it?”
Andrea commented: Good question. As I use the word, I “manifest” something when I have attracted something to myself: a person, a circumstance. The steps I use to manifest something are to place my attention on it, knowing it’s possible for it to occur and then run a visualization in my head several times a day of what it would be like to be in that situation. How would I feel when I met the right person with the right info to take me to the next level, to offer me the right job, to invite me on a fun adventure, to join with me in a business venture, to connect me with a lost child or friend, to have the remedy for a health blip, to find me the discounted airfare, to let me have peace of mind no matter my circumstances, to gift me with new windows for the house or whatever I seek to do or have.