Can You Bring More Watermelon into Your Life with a Vision Board? (Uhg, yes, maybe, def, yes)
- Anika Yuzak
- Feb 29, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 27, 2024
Not too long ago, I hung up a vision board in my office cubicle—predominantly of young people swimming off the coast of what looked like Greece, dream homes and cutouts of Sofia Copolla. Looking at it, I remember feeling mildly depressed but satisfied somehow, like I'd been successful in accurately capturing my desires, and also a bit embarrassed about the sheer number of pictures I'd found and included of Sofia Copolla.
Then just this past week, I looked up, and I was perched on a little piece of paradise in Howe Sound, eating watermelon slices with some of my favourite people, and we were taking a break from making my short film to go for a swim. We were location scouting and, through the friend of a friend, we had found the perfect beach house.
And it hit me when I was wading around in the cool water, under the hot sun, that I had become a carbon copy of my office vision board. Here I was, making a movie with friends and swimming in the world's cleanest, most beautiful ocean.
I was reminded that clarifying our visions have a way of signalling to the universe, in some magical way, to meet us in our planning.
After all, there is even science behind it. Studies show that clarifying our deepest desires in visual form can help us out of our analytical and sometimes limited thinking and into our creative visionary brain, where all the watermelons grow and all the magic happens.
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