The Dua Lipa approach to manifestation is surprisingly simple

Dua Lipa has been an IT girl for me ever since I saw her perform live for the second time. Everything about her feels like goals: the toned arms, the luscious black hair, the enviable wardrobe and, increasingly, the life she seems to have built around herself. Because lately, Dua Lipa has become everyone’s dream girl, complete with the career, the style and the love life that could easily live on a vision board. Enter Callum Turner.

But perhaps the most interesting thing about Lipa’s very enviable life is that she has been writing some of it down for years. And while the internet has had plenty to say about whether she somehow manifested her relationship with Turner, there is something far more useful in her approach: she doesn’t just dream about the things she wants. She writes them down, visualises them and then works towards them.

Did Dua Lipa manifest Callum Turner?

Take Training Season, for example. Fans have widely associated the 2024 hit with manifestation, particularly because of its themes of knowing your worth, refusing to settle and being clear about what you want from love. Lipa herself has described the song as a kind of manifestation anthem, reflecting her belief in setting an intention, writing it down and working towards making it a reality.

The internet, naturally, has had a field day with the fact that 'Training Season' arrived on February 15, Turner’s birthday, and that the pair’s relationship began around the same period. The two reportedly met at a friend’s birthday party in Los Angeles and discovered they were reading the same book, Hernán Díaz’s Trust—both having just finished the first chapter. Turner reportedly joked that they were “on the same page”. The romance has since gone from rumoured to very real: the couple married in June 2026.

But love may not even be Lipa’s most impressive manifestation success story. Years before she headlined Glastonbury, while working on her first album, Lipa wrote down that by her third record she wanted to headline the festival, and that she wanted to work with Tame Impala. Both happened.

The Dua Lipa approach to manifestation

Her process is refreshingly simple. She has spoken about being a fan of dream boards and manifestation, but the important part is that her dreams were written down and then pursued. When she writes music, she has said she even imagines what the songs will sound like at Glastonbury. When that dream finally happened in 2024, she told the crowd that she had written the moment down, wished for it, dreamed about it and worked hard in the hope that it would happen.

And perhaps that is the real lesson here. Manifestation doesn’t have to be mystical, magical or particularly woo-woo. Writing your goals down is a way of making them tangible. It reminds you that what you want isn’t simply a dream floating around in your head; it is something you have consciously chosen to work towards.

So, take a page out of Dua Lipa’s notebook. Write it down as though it has already happened. Be specific. Put it somewhere you will see it. Then, every day, do something that moves you a little closer to it. Because maybe manifestation isn’t about waiting for the universe to do the work. Maybe it is simply a daily reminder to hold yourself accountable to chase the dream, follow it through and, eventually, make it materialise.

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