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only in cosmo How To Manifest Your Perfect Year As a self-confessed fan of the odd visualisation tactic or two, Mel Evans explores the power of literally pinning your hopes on a moodboard. Think of it as a law of attraction—in action. A pparently if you stare at something long enough, and want it hard enough, that ‘thing’ will come to you, courtesy of the universe. Roll your eyes, sure, but there’s something in that. I used to turn my nose up at such malarkey, but now I’m a convert. All it took was a cover of Cosmopolitan and a business card that said ‘Mel Evans, Cosmopolitan’. I thought I’d give the ol‘ visualisation thing a go 18 months ago, so I looked at each of these images when I woke up and before I went to sleep as I waited on confirmation that this here job was mine. I was using the power of visualisation, and after getting said job, I was hooked. Odds are, I got my role based on my mad skills and not some galactic event of ‘putting it out into the universe’, but we do underestimate how we can manifest our goals by tangibly focusing on them and lockin g them into our subconscious. When it’s all you think about, you’re more likely to go out there and grab it by the b*lls. 84 COSMOPOLITAN jAnuARy 2017 Victoria Beckham is a fan of positive thinking and ‘creative visualisation’. Oprah is why we became obsessed with The Secret and says she always believed ‘the way you think is the reality you create for yourself’. Even Kanye said that he became the best rapper because he “sat around and thought about it”. Basically, we can all be Yeezy if we wish it enough. Visualisation is something that’s infiltrating our psyche, one tiny thumbtack at a time. As I type, my Cosmo colleagues are talking about pinning a photo of [insert celebrity here] up in the office to put it out to the universe that we want them on the next cover. Australia-based life coach Katie Maynes toyed with vision boards in the past, but it wasn’t until she introduced them to the clients as a part of their practice that she realised their full ‘magical’ potential. She finds them key to figuring out new opportunities, identifying what you want and, in turn, figuring out what you don’t want. Going even further, she sees them as a means to bring ‘space’ to your endeavours, as we often focus so much on the product, we don’t think about where it will fit in our life. “If you FOR MORE GREAT STORIES, VISIT cOSMO.In c don’t create space, the opportunity may be there but it’s not going to present itself to you because you’re too busy,” she says, as you no doubt nod in an ‘I hear that’ fashion. “Having something visual and tangible reminding you of what you want will also help you think about why you’re doing this and what you want to achieve with it, all in one space. If you stop to reflect by putting it on a board, it helps prioritise where you want to go.” Rewind back to the height of The Secret’s success in 2006 when visualisation was on steroids and we would walk down the street finding items for our manifestation spank-bank. The book has sold over 20 million copies and been translated into 50 languages—the power of manifestation is a global want, apparently. For Radhika, 35, the fascination with visualisation started after making the leap across the pond to London. “I stated that I wanted to work for an innovative company and visualised signing a contract in November of that year,”