In 2020, can visualisation boards really make all our goals a reality?

Christine Manby wants next year to be filled Californian beach houses and Sardinian pastries. Can a little help from cosmic ordering and laws of attraction help her get there?

(Illustration by Tom Ford)

This time of year is heavy with traditions. One of my favourites is a relatively new one, in which my dear friend Victoria and I swap festive greetings on 31 December with a variation on the following words: “Next year is going to be our year!” “This is definitely our year.” Or “For crying out loud, it must be our year this time.”

Since we’ve started swapping these optimistic messages, I can safely say that it has never been “my year” (though Victoria has married a wonderful man and published a top 10 novel). But this year, my friends, will be different Chez Manby. I’ve decided to increase my chances of having a truly stonking 2020 by creating a cosmic-ordering-style vision board, featuring everything I need for my ideal life. There will be pictures of Californian beach houses, Venetian palazzos and shaggy rescue dogs. There will be a new car, big gold earrings and numerous Sardinian pastries. I’m sticking it all down and sending it out to the universe.