If you spent any time scrolling through Instagram or TikTok on New Year’s Day, you’ll have seen a new routine emerging among the midnight kisses and scattering of sequins: people huddled on the floor, hunched over piles of old magazines, cutting things out and sticking them onto large whiteboards, probably to the soundtrack of something like Natasha Bedingfield’s classic aspirational bop “Unwritten”.
It’s a bit like the sort of thing you would do in a GCSE art class. Except there’s nothing childish about this activity. In fact, some would say it’s the most mature way to ring in the new year. Introducing “vision-boarding”: an arts and crafts way of helping you to visualise your goals for the year ahead and manifest them into action. Hailed by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Cardi B, a vision board is something that might sound like a niche spiritual practice reserved for the woo-woo among us – today, though, it’s very much a mainstream activity.
