How MNFST Works

What do you want?

— Conner Kees

The Starting Point

MNFST begins with the simplest possible question:

“What do you want?”

That’s it. Name one thing you want. Anyone can do this.

From this single seed:

The app is a place for really getting to know your future self, eyes wide open, in your present waking state... and practicing the neurology NOW of the state you intend to create through meditation and affirmation, i.e. solidifying your vision. What you're doing on the mat is essential. MNFST is like the glue that can help hold that state together in between times on the mat.

— Conner Kees

Between Times on the Mat

What you're doing on the mat is essential. MNFST is like the glue that can help hold that state together in between times on the mat.

— Conner Kees

The Method: Dynamic Questioning

MNFST uses 81 carefully designed questions with your first vision (52 about you, 29 for each vision) to:

1. Meet your future self with increasing specificity
2. Anchor that state emotionally and physiologically
3. Connect it to your self-concept and current reality
4. Hold the neural pathways that keep the state available off the mat

Each question is a novel way of engaging with your vision. The novelty matters—it forces your neurons to fire in new patterns, deepening the embodiment.

Question Categories

Representative prompts from the full set of 81 questions with one vision (examples, not an exhaustive list). Life-area prompts — current maximum, ease of imagination, ideal, and desired feelings — are counted once for each of the six life areas. Vision-specific prompts are counted once per vision:

Reflection (1-10 Scale)

Core dimensions (used in practice and charts):

• Trust: “How easily do you trust this vision being realized?”
• Imagination: “How easily do you imagine this vision?”
• Naturalness: “How natural and attainable does this vision feel?” (Framework: feel it — maps here, not to a separate desire slider.)
• Ideal Mindset: “How easy is it for you to shift into your ideal mindset - as if you are your ideal self, now?” This is a list-level -10 to 10 check-in, not a rating of one vision.

Legacy: Desire reflection was deprecated; existing ratings may remain in your data but new sessions use trust, imagination, and naturalness only.

Feel and Embodiment questions (below) build the same axis: the easier it is to describe feelings at realization, and the stronger those feelings, the more naturalness should tend to rise over time.

Trust, Imagination, and Naturalness are tracked simultaneously, not sequentially — they aren’t steps you complete in order on the way to some single “motivation” number. A vision can be vividly imagined and feel entirely natural while still staying inert because trust is low, or trusted deeply while feeling hard to picture. Rating them separately is what makes it possible to notice which dimension is actually the bottleneck for a given vision, instead of guessing.

Emotional Anchoring

• Feel: “How will you feel with this vision realized?”
• Embodiment: “Where in your body do you feel it when you imagine this vision realized?”
• Stream: “What will you see, feel, hear, taste, and touch when this vision is realized?”

Clarification

• Simplify: “What is a one-or-two-word summary of this vision?”
• Symbol: “What image, drawing, or visual represents this vision?”
• Rephrase: “Is there another way of saying this that excites you?”
• Categorize: “Which life category does this vision fit under?”

Connection

• Why (Layered): “Why do you want this?” — asked multiple times to reach core motivations
• Connect: “When this vision is realized, what else in your life will also be true?”
• Recognize: “In what ways is this vision already realized in your life?”

Action Alignment

• Action: “What actions might move you toward this vision?”
• Exchange: “What do you plan on doing in exchange for realizing this vision?”
• Limitation: “What do you feel is keeping you from realizing this vision?”

Self-Knowledge

• Self-Love: “What is something you love about yourself that you believe is absolutely true?”
• Ideal Self: “What would you feel, see, or hear if you were witnessing your ideal self?”
• Favorite Memory Reason: A favorite memory appears in the header, followed by: “Why is this one of your favorite memories? What do you love about it?” The response is a paragraph with optional feelings, intensity, fears, and embodiment detail.
• Values: “What is most important to you?”
• Knowing: “What do you absolutely know to be true?”

The Experience

Using MNFST is not about:

• ❌ Inputting data
• ❌ Tracking metrics
• ❌ Achieving scores
• ❌ Building streaks

Using MNFST is about:

• ✅ Getting to know your future self, eyes wide open, in your present waking state
• ✅ Practicing the neurology NOW of the state you intend to create
• ✅ Getting used to the feeling of answering the questions asked
• ✅ Holding that state together in between times on the mat

Practice Modes

Manual Mode

Directly input reflections and data for specific visions.

Practice Everything Mode

Random prompts for random visions—keeps your entire vision landscape alive.

Journal Mode

Standard journaling without structured prompts.

Conversational Mode

LLM-guided natural language practice—the app adapts to how you naturally think and speak. In Integration Chat, questions follow the same integration settings as card mode; you can use autofill chips above the message box (reply starters, skip, and shortcuts like self-knowledge or journal-style prompts) so common moves feel like part of the conversation—your answers are still parsed and saved through the same integration pipeline.

The Core Loop

1. Name one thing you want
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2. Meet your future self through novel questions
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3. Feel the answers (neurology NOW, eyes open)
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4. Repeat (in between times on the mat)
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5. Take aligned action
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6. Return to MNFST (glue)

Key Features

What Makes It Different

Traditional To-Do List

• Input: Task
• Output: Checked box
• Missing: Why you’re doing it

MNFST

• Input: Vision (“What do you want?”)
• Process: 81 questions with your first vision (52 about you, 29 per vision)
• Output: one big, bright, neurologically real object in us
• Bonus: in between times on the mat

The Feeling

After using MNFST, users report:

• Clearer sense of direction
• Increased motivation without force
• Better days with more focus
• Resilience when adversity hits
• A feeling of knowing exactly what they want

The app is a place for really getting to know your future self, eyes wide open, in your present waking state... and practicing the neurology NOW of the state you intend to create through meditation and affirmation, i.e. solidifying your vision.

— Conner Kees

Getting Started

1. Open MNFST
2. Answer: “What do you want?”
3. Let the questions introduce you to your future self
4. Feel your answers, don’t just think them
5. Return in between times on the mat

GetMNFST.com to save the date or get started re-shaping your brain towards fulfillment and letting your life take care of the rest.

— Conner Kees