how to make a ‘vision board’ that actually works ✨

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

If you're feeling up to it, share ONE THING here in the comments that's on your vision board (or that you'd put on it!)...an experience, a place, a type of relationship, a career goal, a personal change or achievement...anything!

[@thehealingfairee]

A €1,000,000 rose quartz bathtub 😍

[@IshratJahan-dh3ev]

A genuine bestfriend that shares the same desires, interests and frequency as me. Someone I can completely click with and grow out of my shell with and make a lot of memories with

[@rachelbreen6963]

Such an interesting video Mel! ☺️ Manifesting getting my driver's license in 2022 ❤️

[@rachaelpope7351]

There are so many aspirations I have but - ***Being an organised person*** - I feel so held back by chaos and procrastination - being an organised person with routine, motivation, momentum and drive to do the little things (cleaning, tidying, cooking proper meals, planning ahead, schedules, meeting deadlines, being on time for appointments etc.) would really help all those bigger things fall into place

[@rachaelpope7351]

@@IshratJahan-dh3ev I can relate to this, having a real feeling of community and connection with another is something I really want to move towards ❤️

[@katie.sleeps]

As a viewer I'm one who dips in and out of your videos, but ultimately am a long term subscriber because I relate to you as a person. Your life is quite different to mine now, with husband, baby and now a house I could basically put a pic of you on my vision board! But even when your life feels so different to mine, it's your openness and vulnerability that are the reasons I keep coming back. So thank you for that and lots of love 💚💚💚

[@lilianab4756]

Katie! I feel the same😄💕🇦🇺

[@healthyholemealbread]

I‘ve handed in my resignation notice and will be leaving my safe job in the new year (due to mental health challenges) and I have no plan for what to do next. This video has come at the perfect time as I’m not sure what I want to do next and I want to avoid doing something that creates the same mental health challenges. Very inspiring content, thank you!

[@dianaadhdchannel]

Amazing you made that choice! Congratulations and well done for putting yourself first. That can seem or feel scary, but also freeing. Best of luck to you 💚

[@healthyholemealbread]

@@dianaadhdchannel awh thank you so much for your kind words - it means a lot!

[@katiuszka9121]

Heyyy, I did the same last year, I just left my job, got some rest, spent time with my mother and friends (I live abroad), learnt to drive....and then after over 2 months I went back to the country I live in and started again, found new job....good luck, you've got it!

[@dianaadhdchannel]

@@katiuszka9121 that's wonderful 🙏🌸

[@veninrouge3211]

I did the same years ago. 😊 Hope you know you are brave and an inspiration. People should take care of their mental health more and it's so amazing to see people like you. Best of luck !

[@hummuslife1086]

My vision board: -buying a house by 2023 with my long-term boyfriend -getting engaged & married -having little babies -going part-time in work to focus more on family and hobbies ❤️ -travelling more -looking after my body, mind and soul after the last few tough years of covid

[@andreeabardem8205]

I really hope al your resolutions will materialize!! ♡♡

[@sareletje]

Exactly the same for me!! 😍

[@lilianab4756]

💕

[@sakuram4908]

Hi Melanie! thank you so so much for everything you do. I'm 17 and still in school but for years now i religiously save your videos to my watch later to watch on days where i'm feeling down, because you're one of those people that are just so uplifting. Your project reset especially helps on days where the depression is rough, and you're a constant source of light and motivation to keep going, and that things will get better. I love how real you are, and how all things in your life aren't perfectly aesthetic or tidy, but that everything is just so raw. Thank you thank you thank you!

[@ip3931]

OK last comment and even though I know you work very hard but am very jealous of you including that you look like an ethereal fairy!

[@jessrobin3678]

I've just broken up with my girlfriend of a year and a bit and didn't realise how much I'd lost myself in it all and it's such a relief to get myself back and this video is such good timing!!

[@Days.]

I live in Russia and my long term goal was to move somewhere else. And at first it was hard to figure out what country do i want to live in. So I've benn to several places, and after years of looking i choose Germany. Now i am on my way to learn the laguage. Need to have B2 level so far i am on A2. And working on my portfolio to find a job + saving money. Will definatly do a vision board. Thank you Melanie

[@yuliyas5363]

This might be a very good exercise for me. Sometimes I feel like I'm just riding the wave and let things happen to me instead of actually working towards something. Visualizing what I actually want from life might be motivating enough to work towards these goals instead of taking the path of least resistance. My life as it is right now is by no means 'bad', it just feels like nothing was an actual acomplishment I deliberatly went after.

[@mathildem6714]

I got about 30 minutes in, until I had SUCH a big urge to do this myself. Been collecting about 50 images for the past hour, and I feel both so calm and positive now 🤩.

[@GloriaTulwan]

I'm manifesting being a judge or prosecutor 💛

[@marinapilipenko]

Gonna go watch Architectural Digest and look for what my future house looks like 🙌

[@alicehartley]

I watched about 20 mins of this vid and had to pause as I just got the urge to make one myself. I then finished the vid after I made mine. Two things I've got on mine are author and poet

[@laura_underscore]

Perfect timing Melanie! Hope everyone has a fantastic 2022 and achieves goals! We can do it

[@fernandao.5001]

I started watching this a bit passively and i didin't finish watching it, today i finished the video and I started imagining a home filled with love, financial stability, joy, feeling abundance, dabbling in my different interests outside of my career, homemade pastries and so much more. Thank you so much for sharing Mel 💚

[@veronicaalonzo1497]

I just found your videos today and am so inspired! I really related to you as a 30 something. Starting my 2022 vision board. I would like to land a big musical or acting role and to sing more!

[@radicalhonesty3628]

as I watch this video, I cry out in anguish. I can no longer bear the pain of this world. I am desperate for a miracle. I can bear to suffer no longer.

[@masonjar6910]

i made one !!! ive been meaning to so im taking this as a sign. modeling opportunities, asl fluency, my own apartment w big windows, degree, etc. excited for whats to come you always make my day a little brighter. lots of well wishes :)

[@aoife-louisedoyle205]

Loooove you Mel💚 been here for many many years and I can safely say that you’re the only youtuber who makes me feel like I fell on a pillow of authenticity and warmth when I watch your videos. I’ve been in Canada for 12yrs now and you are always my reminder of what home (Ireland) is. Please never stop posting content for us 60,000 💚💚

[@aoife-louisedoyle205]

I’d also like to add that I manifested this past year after hearing you talk about it and EVERYTHING happened. I got out of a bad relationship Got healthy Released music Got a great paying job Got to go to LA And today I am picking up the keys to my first apartment where I’ll be living all by myself. Powerful stuff 💚

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

@@aoife-louisedoyle205 ohhhhmyyyyGOODNESS 😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 That is so amazing to hear! xxx

[@AmaranteMusic]

Thank you for using our music in the background Melanie! You are the best!!!

[@LeComplice]

just wanna pop on here to give you some engagement although I don't know how to watch very positive content when I'm a bit depressed. Anyways lol I am genuinely happy for you Melanie!

[@dianaadhdchannel]

Take care of yourself. Take all the rest you need or want. 🙏💚

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

You are so incredibly sweet ❤️ I really do understand that feeling, it’s very difficult to engage with anything super positive when you aren’t feeling that way yourself…take good care of yourself until the depression passes, and it will ❤️ Every time I experience a short bout of it I think back to when I wasn’t depressed and I almost try to mentally ‘try on’ or ‘wear’ that version of myself while I am falling asleep…while wearing her I think about a future version of my life. It gives me a feeling certainty that ‘this is temporary’ xxx

[@aailien1495]

Perfect timing for this video, one of my goals this month was to create a vision for my life in the near and far future and your video has been very helpful in helping me start this (even though i kept putting it off until the end of the month😅)

[@slena]

i’m following your advice and starting a simple folder on my desktop. one of the things i’m manifesting is a home, a fixer upper actually, and i’m super excited for this method because i’ve included videos and songs that truly embody my future. i’m so excited for this vision board, i already want to look at it all the time. i might still print some of the pictures and collage them because i like the physicality of it (and it fits with one of the things i’m visualising). thank you for this it’s given me a lot of strength to keep pursuing what i want. had a sort of set back today and this is what i needed

[@shaylenelson474]

I’m inspired to do this - I believe so strongly in manifestation. Also side note - the music in this video was so enchanting and lovely 🥰

[@abitterwind]

I'm so relieved that you speak so positively about breastfeeding. I'm 39 weeks pregnant and all I've heard so far is 1st-moms complaining about it, hating it, saying that it's overhyped, and I have several women in my family who had their first borns last year and all they talk about is how horrible breastfeeding is because it's so time consuming and exhausting, and how they will be using 100% formula with their 2nd kids when they have them. And I keep an open mind about my future experience, I don't know how I'll feel about it when I'm in it, and whenever I hear a positive experience (which aren't many) it's a breath of fresh air in my life.

[@SpottedTiger89]

Thank you for this! I'm inspired! I have a hard time knowing what I do want. I know what I don't want very well. And then when I ask myself what I want, my mind goes blank. I'm going to try this and see if I can allow myself to go wherever my mind wants to go

[@florencewebb2025]

THANK YOU for this. I loved it. Just finished and I'm gonna watch it again, let it all wash over me. I'm gonna journal and figure out what I even want on my vision board and I'm bloody excited about that.

[@hollo0o583]

Could you some day talk about how to stop self sabotaging? / what your experiences were and how you got out of it?

[@crinaci]

Melanie, you will be on my vision board 😁💚

[@roxig]

Oh how I love this video! On my second time watching it and I just know I'll be back again. Thank you for sharing this, Mel! I'm creating my folder, it's already filled with goodness of my international partner coming to the US, us traveling to beaches in Thailand in the future, our kiddo, my parents being around as grandparents... it's almost scary to write this out as I feel like I might "jinx" it, but I'm trying to get past that fear and realize that if I stay afraid to make my dreams a reality, they won't become a reality! Gotta be brave and go for what we deserve, right? May you be well!

[@chiarapnp]

Thanks for this video! I finally made my vision board a couple months ago after a long time of thinking about it. One of the main things on my vision board is a picture of a girl driving confidently, as I'm extremely scared of driving and my fear is really starting to impact my life. I hope I'll be strong enough to overcome it. 💜

[@lynncrf]

Do you know how to drive already? ♥️

[@chiarapnp]

@@lynncrf I do. I actually took my license right when I turned 18, but even then I felt extremely anxious when driving, so I stopped. It's been 10 years since then and I've tried several times to overcome the fear, but never succeded.

[@jacquelynravenstein2014]

Watched this & practiced my digital vision board on New Years Day :) There’s a picture of you in there! I’m 18 weeks pregnant and looking forward to 2022 being the year I become a mother - I’ve been watching your videos on pregnancy and birth and they’ve been really helpful! Hoping to carry some of your peaceful joyful genuine energy about motherhood into my journey as well. Thank you for all the videos you’ve made. Happy 2022!

[@FarrenDowning]

Love this video, I stand by manifestation and recently did my 5 year goals which included: -get my degree -have a good career that I'm happy in -get engaged -get married -have a baby (at the end of the 5 years) -travel -be comfortable money wise -have a home As well as lots of other bits I'm happy that you spoke about money, I feel like some people see it as rude to talk about it but I think it's interesting and inspiring for someone who came from nothing and is now on a student loan income. I've been watching you for years and years, can't even pinpoint a time that I started watching. Would love to see you do a clothing/merch line, maybe a fitness series (for someone who finds it a bit intimating) I would small travel vlogs of different parts of Ireland. Very similar stuff to what you're already doing but a dedicated series for each thing individually. Also would love to see some vintage videos like a what's in my bag but mummy edition, monthly favourites videos etc x

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

I LOVE this! And thank you so, so much for the video suggestions too 😍👌🏻❤️

[@nicolegalea1551]

This really helped

[@julieparker9581]

Love this! Good luck ❤️

[@Alinda1308]

I was waiting for this like a child waits for Christmas 🤩

[@marywinsor]

completely in it for the journey with you

[@momlifeandme-shaunamalan4441]

Buying a home, it’s the main goal for us. Expecting baby no 3 and on one low salary but we will get there eventually ❤️

[@chloely_]

My vision board By 2023: Graduate from college Fully recover from my ED End my longdistance so I can be with my partner everyday :)

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

Loveee this ❤️❤️❤️

[@georgiamcfarlane7389]

4 things on my 5 year vision board (as a 22 year old student) - Graduate from undergrad degree - travel! - get a dog - focus more on my hobbies

[@vaishaliyadav8128]

yess i m urr core peoplee,😅☺☺☺i m bere for u and ur journey.i watch ur video at any random moment random feeling to feel good toh feel like u as our friend just everythg

[@sophysio2234]

I’m running my own physio practice specialized in pelvic floor stuff. In 5 years 😬

[@kristinaisakovic1026]

You're glowing in this video Melanie 😍 Green is definitely your color! You made this video at the right time, I was thinking about manifestation and how my future would look like. So far, it is really unpredictable and I don't know what will happen after I get my PhD next year but some of the things I would like to happen are: - get my dream job in England and move - get my own place which would be filled with plants and would potentially have a garden - be surrounded by friends and cooking for them, hanging out with them - getting a couple of tattoos 🙈 - see more of Asia in the next few years! I can't wait to make my own vision board this weekend ✨💚

[@alexandrastrevens5542]

Back in 2023 using this video as the base of my manifestation in my bullet journal, first time actually manifesting and I'm excited to see the outcome!

[@oh_em1111]

i haven’t gotten into making mine yet but i’ve been gathering images slowly and my big this is an apartment so i can finally move out of my parents house in the next year or two 😂 i already have the job on the other side of the state that i’ve been working remotely for a few months i’m just waiting on being made a full time designer and saving up before i do it

[@sandramengel_85_]

Hey Melanie! 💚 Thank you so much for the video! It was perfect timing for me and I created a vision photo album on my phone. I've been following you for many years, watched every video of yours and you keep inspiring me. Can't wait for your new book to be published and pre-ordered it today. 😊 All the best to you, Thomas and your beautiful son as well as your dad, brother and sister. 💚 Greetings from Germany 💚

[@thelonelyassassin8584]

I've returned to this video to make a vision board for myself for 2023 and can I say just how wonderful it is to already see your 5 year mood board becoming reality. From the second baby along the way to that dark green foresty living room, it's just so wonderful.

[@zofiabochenska1240]

You got me inspired to actually do a vision board for the first time in my life :D Can't promise I'll keep up with it, but I will at least try. Two random things I'm adding - a house overlooking a magnolia tree, and a picture of me in a cuddle pile.

[@monikafigurska8323]

I have a vision - I finish my last year of law school and graduate, get to keep the job I do part time now, save some money over the summer and visit NYC early fall with my best friends and family. Obvs send my parents pictures of every corner in NYC to make them feel like they're there with me x And nothing special after that, just simple things like finding my one true love and making millions of dollars and being happy & content with life xxx lol wish everyone good luck

[@aemayckaj]

Melanie, you're getting added to my vision board! Thanks so much for this video x

[@MariaRose360]

When you started talking about visualisation of your ideal partner in the evenings I couldn't help thinking of you creating manifestation mediations. I know I would definitely love to listen to that sort of thing while lying in bed in the evening 😊

[@teabiscuit5998]

On mine I want to know if acting is something I really want to pursue. I've had an interest in it for as long as I can remember just never had the confidence in myself to think I could do it, and then life things got in the way! But I really want to give it a go. Also for your logo I'd love to see a perfume from you, I need a new perfume and I feel like you'd come out with such a lovely one :)

[@dianaadhdchannel]

You look so lovely!!! Mine would be retiring to a small cabin. No off-grid craziness, still need those luxuries!

[@quitelauren]

Me watching this video, looking at my green kitchen and Samoyed puppy 👀 Our boards could be quite similar! I can’t wait to get into this for my Sunday. Thank you Mel ❤️

As always, thank you for the inspiration! I always come back to you to feel grounded and motivated, I need something real and closer to my reality (american dream inspo doesnt always work for an european gal).. Even tho I don't have (yet) a vision board, you're one of the people I admire, trying to manifest such a positive, real and warm life! Living the big dreams and the simpler ones, that's a life I want to manifest! I'm here for the long haul, thank you for always sharing as you do! Lots of love from a, now very inspired, portuguese girl!

[@auag19]

I have a dream of starting my own podcast for the longest time. Last year I told everyone who asked me what my new year's resolution was for 2021 "yep, I'm gonna do it, I finally have to do it, I have no option now, I've told all of you". It's December 2021 and all I've come up with is a name... 😢 Other than that I finally had time to join the NaNoWriMo this year because I finally graduated uni and only have to focus on doing a boring job (4x a week) which leaves me with evenings and 3 days to focus on my writing, but for some reason, November passed me by and I just couldn't find the time or energy to do it. So then I just decided to not do it instead of beating up myself about having dreams and not pursuing them. Idk, I feel kinda lazy about my dreams, yet the quote "most men lead lives of quiet desperation" and Maya Angelou's quote “.”still haunt me to this day. I think what I've been missing is more specific goals and a dream board will hopefully help me with that. I'll use this video as a push to creating my own timeline and a vision for myself so that 2022 doesn't pass me by with unfulfilled dreams and goals, yet again! Anw, just a long time subscriber here with a need to vent bc you do feel like a virtual friend indeed 💚

[@ines8925]

• my dream house • my dream wardrobe • career success • my dream car • a healthy relationship • my dream camera • travel

[@elouiseoldfield7179]

Perfect timing as I have been thinking about making one myself recently! My vision board for the next year is: moving to a house, launching my own businesses & connecting to nature on a deeper level! Amongst many other things but those are my main goals

[@hannah953]

This has come at such a good time for me! Always wanted to vision board but felt I haven't had time to cut up pictures for a scrapbook and didn't feel inspired by thought of trying a canva style desktop. I absolutely love the idea of a photo album of memories that just haven't happened yet- never thought of it like that and it makes so much sense!

[@amberelizabeth3439]

This video got me HYPED! Idk why I havent dont this yet. Thanks for the video! ♡

[@vickys8246]

I was one of the people who asked for this vid so it's so nice to see it happen! My long-term vision board will defo include becoming self-employed, buying a house, learning piano, making lots of roast dinners and having a little baby

[@AbbeyandMusic]

Would love it if you came out with jewelry- adore your eclectic style Melanie. Going to get going on a vision board as well! :)

[@judimcdonnell1971]

You are just fab, thanks for this great ideas and I do vision boards in my head rather than anywhere where I can look properly at it 🤣 but I am going to do one in my phone from now! The realness of you keeps me watching as I had a very similar teenhood and 20 something, so for me it's a recognition of what you can do for yourself 💚💚💚

[@littleheartinlove7387]

Putting one together while watching your video. I’ll print it and put it on the inside of my closet door, so every morning when I’ll pick an outfit I can see it. Put a baby, a little house, countries I want to travel to, bree van de kamp as I aspire to be a good SAMH, money, green candles, my dream living room and kitchen, baby room, a happy woman with a baby carrier, wedding dresses and engagement ring….

[@christineculbertson4804]

I just found your KZbin channel! Thank you for sharing your vision Board! I am new to your channel. I can't wait to watch more of your videos!

[@arlettey]

Thanks so much for this! What perfect timing! I'm in the process of launching my own business so all of this was motivating and calming to watch. Of course career, manifest, girlboss, yada yada. But dude...... The main thing I'm manifesting is a partner who is joyful. I'm done with being the only one in the room who brings optimism and energy. World bring me the sort of relationship where we can gas each other up and multiply that joyful energy. Not sure how to visually symbolise that.... suggestions?

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

I ended up using a lot of silhouette images, images taken of models from behind, images from KZbin videos and movies, anything that I was able to mentally link with the FEELING I wanted to feel in a relationship! 🥰 It just has to enable YOU to evoke the right feeling xxx So excited for your business omg!

[@sarahalice392]

I loveeeee this! Mine has things like owning a house with my girlfriend in the next five years so we don't have to be long distance anymore, graduating uni with the qualifications I need for my dream career and just cosy reading vibes that I want to have in my daily life and travelling and so many things!! I love vision boards they get me so excited for the future :)) editing this because I somehow forgot about the most exciting thing: one day getting a cat!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stephaniesorady3267]

I am manifesting a publishing contract! Loved this video!

[@jacquelinecuevas7749]

Omg yeesssss, I will definitely do thissssssss, thank uu meel💜💜💜 Your content always motivates me to keep on going ✨

[@lolololololutrythcfy]

one thing is i’m going to be a published author :> i became emotional during making my board- the deep desire for all things i was putting on it brought out this weepiness and my heart felt full and also maybe a little sad (like i had finally finished something and i’m going onto greater things but i just was mourning the past before jumping on to do great things!) it felt special. i took a break bc of the powerful emotions but i’ll go back and put more on in a second :)

[@militsa4220]

Love this sort of video, sending you lots of love 🌼💚

[@thelonelyassassin8584]

Thank you so much Melanie for showing your vision board it's helped me know what I'd like to add mine. Like the part of using celebrities as inspiration is something I would have never though of (love Eva Green). I've realised that the path I'm following in life isn't one that will lead me to where I ultimately want to be especially career wise. Now my turn to create my vision board.

[@hermeeown]

I've always wanted to write a novel but felt lost about what to write and felt I didn't have enough life experience to create anything decent. Watching this has given me the inspiration to finally make a go of it and came up with the idea for a fantasy story while watching this ❤️ crazy how the inspiration can strike when you let the inhibitions and fear or failure go

[@kellyh3295]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVED this video! I'd love to hear you chatting through your vision boards on the regs, so interesting and uplifting

[@heytherefrankybadass]

Love this. It’s been on my radar forever, but I want to sing the song “Maybe This Time” from cabaret for a show.

[@WorriedBubble]

Vision boards look like great mental tools with the ability to shift a scattered mindset towards taking action on longer term things which aren't immediately satisfying! Very interesting

[@Lovely_Linda_777]

I’ve been highly motivated as of late to make a vision journal, because like you I don’t like boards, & I already have a digital one that I keep in my phone, but there’s just something about paper w/ hand written notes, & pictures glued to the Pages! This video & all of your suggestions has highly motivated me, & I can also agree that without action towards manifestation, there will be no realization…. Thank you for all that you do! 🙏🏻💞

[@MariaRose360]

Oh, Melanie, I don't think you realise this but you are amazing and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's watching your channel because I admire you, your attitude to life and the lovely family you've built. It's safe to say you are on my vision board 💚 Channeling my inner Melanie 💚

[@BrianaMorganBooks]

Way to go, Melanie! It's inspiring seeing how far you've come :)

[@MsGoldenPoppy]

I havent seen the video yet but i had a psychologically tough day and i know this will cheer me up. Thank you ❤️

[@D.C.626]

I knew this was a video I'd need some quiet time to dedicate my full attention to. I've never thought the whole "vision board" thing was for me. The whole manifestation concept seemed too much like wishing for your dreams to come true. But your philosophy about this - the idea that having a concept about what your future WILL look like (not just could look like), and that giving motivation and focus to your current self is brilliant (feels like time traveling!). I absolutely love the idea of having folders on your computer for this purpose - and it also makes them considerably easier to keep current as your wants/desires change. Do you have any advice for a shorter time duration? (Ie. 1-2 years). I've considered doing one less than a 5 year vision, but worry that if I dont "achieve" those things within the shorter time frame, I'll be discouraged (any tips for overcoming this would be so appreciated). I've wanted to have both a career I enjoy, and be a mom since I was a little girl (my mum was a great inspiration). The passion, love and utter joy with which you speak about motherhood and your darling little boy brings me to tears. Thank you for this inspirational video; it's going into my favourites and YOU on my vision board. Love always 💚💚💚

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

This comment made me so happy! 🥰❤️ As I said about trusting the timing…sometimes something you’d love to experience in the coming year won’t happen for five or ten but usually it’ll be for good reason - there may be lots of lessons to be learned that need to happen first etc! Discouragement is almost like self sabotage with this stuff…know that if it hadn’t happened yet, it will, or it’s because something better will come 💚 Thinking that way keeps me in a really positive headspace! But yeah when it comes to the short term if you first start with a general idea of your dream life blueprint, break it down into more bite size pieces…like me with my house for example. I knew that many people my age cannot afford to hit houses in Dublin, I looked into all the things that I had to stack in my favour in order to get a mortgage…how much I had to save…and years back I simply focused on moving in that direction slowly but surely! I try to approach everything this way and when life gives me lemons I make lemonade ☺️❤️

[@D.C.626]

@@melaniemurphyofficial thank you for the advice! I'm so pleased you and Thomas finally found your first house! (My sister and I are also in the same situation - cannot find any place where we live/close to parents that we can afford, even if we go in together, and neither of us have any partners right now, so no chance at a mortgage). I've been watching your videos for years and keep my whole family updated on how you are doing 😅 my mum is also really happy you've gotten your home, and thinks Pan is the sweetest (such a strong little boy!). Your journey, not just as a creator on youtube, but your life that you have shared online has truly inspired me. I'm a nurse, but due to certain physical health issues, I always knew it wouldnt be a long-term sustainable career (I love it though, and specialize in caring for the elderly). I am currently working part time, AND going back to school (exams are next week!) to finish a degree (in a different field) that I started nearly 10 years ago (with my transfer credits, and summer courses, I will finish my degree and teachers college in 4 to 5 years total). Not at all where I thought I'd be at 28 (almost 29) when I finished high school, but like you've said, things have happened the way they have, and in the order they have because other things needed to happen first. Hope you, Thomas, little Pan, and the rest of the Murphy-O'Rourke family have a cozy holiday! (P.S. if you guys get snow, tell us all about what Pan thinks of it!) 💚😊🎄❄☃️ (P.P.S. May you also soon get your big white dog 🐶 - still fond of the name Albus?)

[@ip3931]

Good God, I'll never be a wife or mother unfortunately (worst of all this means I will never be a grandmother) but I couldn't help but chuckle with relief when you said you'd let your kid choose the theme of his bedroom because for a moment I thought you were going to force him to sleep in a dinosaur/whimsical forest themed hellhole LOL

[@tamaricatasica477]

I don't comment often even though I watch every single video you post the minut you do, but you saying you don't express gratitude often enough got me thinking-I don't either! So thank you so much for just existing, you have been such a positive force on me for so many years. I'm definitely going to make a newer vision board and you and your family are probably gonna be on it because I can only hope I turn out to be as a great human as you. 💚💚💚

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

Aweee Tamara oh my goodness what a kind, sweet, encouraging, LOVELY comment 😭❤️

[@abbiesmith7612]

We are so different on many levels! But you inspire me! I'm a pretty long term subscriber. I don't want kids, I barely believe in marriage, and so many other things. But you're view on life is so healthy. You still understand bad days, weeks, months, sometimes years. And you don't forget that and do everything to be a happy healthy person!

[@marinac5329]

I love your energy so much, that's why I've been watching you for years 💕 I'm in my 20s starting to figure out who I want to be, and even if I don't have a vision of how I want my life to be in 10 years I do know some things I want to work to mid term, this is really helpful

[@niamhbrady_]

This was so so great and transparent, I loved it. Can’t wait to do this. I have been watching for many years! 💖

[@isidoraspasic6543]

regarding the thing you said about having your own brand - I would looove to see something like the Me Time journals again! and maybe if you want it to be a bit of a broader brand, you could add in some lifestyle bits around that

[@hannahkellymusicc]

first of all, you're one of my very favorite KZbinrs because I really feel like you want to bring value to your viewers and you're so honest. ... and your Irish (like my dad) and super creative :) also, I have bought myself 'If Only' for Christmas and can't wait to read it. These are a few of the things on my vision board: release my first EP, get a good and stable band and go on tour, pass the entry exam to the UdK to study music again, do a semester abroad, find a great apartment, be healthy :) xx

[@JudithSamp]

12:42 - 12:55 really resonated with me! What a marvellous video, thank you!

[@michellezevenaar]

Yaaaah to more gardening! I love too garden and just planted another tree in our garden. It's the 6th tree and we don't have a huge garden! Best advice I can give as a mother with 2 kids, 3.5 years and a 6 month old, is to plant things that are going to live for years and need little work to maintain. Raspberrys, strawberry, apple trees..... That way you will always have something you can harvest with the kids without having to plant it in spring. Start planning the garden in January February and start planning seeds in February March April indoors. Plant out in April may! If you want some awesome garden inspiration then check out the videos from the last 2 summers of the Chateau diaries.

[@ilostsomethingones]

Thank you Melanie for this video!!!!!! Time is just right!! Now I better understand how to do it,,, to do it as album of memories is such great idea!

[@elliechandler2099]

I’m so excited to try this! Xx

[@davidm.9510]

I have watched every one of your vid's in its entirety since 2015. I have so enjoyed being part of your journey. I feel a part of it... Along with everything else, thank you for sharing your vision and past about income. (I also love when Hannah does it.)

[@ArtieCarden]

I use a notebook every year for my vision board. I have loose goals and wishes for the year and every month and I decorate it with things I like the look of and things I want to have or experience or become in my life and it has changed so much for me tbh!

[@LemonBrontosaurus]

I can feel the change in me, when you announced your buying a house I was so genuinely joyful for you! I first watched your videos when I was in an unhealthy, codependent 4.5 year long relationship. I saw your relationship with yourself and with Thomas and I wanted something like that for myself so bad but so firmly believed that it wasn’t possible or attainable for me. But I am out the other side now, and I am working to love myself and protect myself harder than ever before. Thank you for being the internet big sister I needed so badly!! Thank you thank you thank you!! - from a 25 year old gal stranger on the internet!!!!

[@duck6100]

Could you cite some of the studies you're getting your information from? I looked at the one you cited and it doesn't really have a meaningful link to a lot of the content you talk about in this video. They showed that mental contractions of subject's little fingers and elbows can lead to an increase in strength of those voluntary contractions compared to a control group. The group that actually did the exercises physically found a greater increase in strength (around 20% more than for just mental exercises). Their findings may be useful for patients who need physical rehabilitation but are initially too weak to participate but I don't see how this has much to do with the general use of "manifesting" that's popular at the moment. I don't think you can take the case of mental exercise enhancing cortical output signal which drives muscles to a higher activation level and apply that as evidence that mood boards or manifesting works. A similar problem might be if I tell you that gravity results in a force that pulls you towards something's centre of mass but then go on to say this is evidence that if I was standing next to a large building I'd be pulled next to it like a magnet on a fridge. The concept is there but an assumption has been made to reach the next statement which has little basis. This assumption was made because I don't understand gravity with enough competence to know otherwise.

[@melaniemurphyofficial]

I wasn’t linking it as ‘evidence’ I was linking it as an example of the power of the mind ☺️✨ Our minds are capable of absolutely incredible things. That knowledge is important if you’re to believe you can communicate with your subconscious in a way that impacts your choices & what you’re capable of bringing about in your own life x

[@katie.sleeps]

I reckon the thinking here was a little more "wishy-washy" than your scientific brain will be comfortable with (my assumption of course). My interpretation is that the study is used more to showcase the incredible ability of mental activity without the input of physical activity. And this, combined with a general belief that science a) cannot (yet) explain everything , and b) has previously provided evidence for things commonly thought be impossible, can be interpreted as reasonable "evidence" for some unexplained mental capability linked with manifestation. Did that make sense? 😂 I've done zero research to back up my opinion so feel free to disregard it haha!

[@duck6100]

@@melaniemurphyofficial Yeah suspected you might say something like that. The implication you made by citing that study in this specific video, whether you intended to or not, was "our brains are powerful enough to do this, therefore it isn't unreasonable to suggest it can do all this other stuff as well" which is a big assumption. Putting that aside, it might be worth considering providing citations for all the other claims you made? You genuinely don't strike me as the type that would choose not to do research in the things you talk about online and I genuinely would be interested to read where you're getting your info from. Anyway maybe we agree to disagree on this and at least I'm glad this video obviously made others really happy. Have a good rest of your evening.

[@duck6100]

@@katie.sleeps I'm a 🌠 woman in STEM 🌠 so your assumption isn't far off. I would say here, firstly, that a lack of scientific evidence to describe a phenomenon is not an excuse to abandon the scientific method and make your own theory based on no evidence, nor is a lack of evidence equivalent to evidence. Science is not perfect because humans practise it. It is continously updated and improved which is why we need to be critical of it. However, being critical is not equivalent to disregarding a scientific consensus as a layman because you think you know better (that's how we got anti-vaxxers). In this case, manifestation in the popular sense of the word can be attributed to confirmation bias which is a phenomenon incredibly well established within psychology. I'm perfectly open to having my mind changed on manifestation, that's the nature of being a scientist. If you're not willing to abandon theories when they're disproved, you're bad at your job. I'm just going to need more than "our minds are so powerful and incredible 🥰🌈🌼🌹" to convince me.

[@duck6100]

@@leanne2030 tbh although I think it's nice to be able to have discussions like this in the comments, it's Mel's channel so I'd accept if she wanted to delete this thread or similar ones, especially if it devolved into one big argument. I find stuff like that kind of stressful so fair play if she feels a similar way 😊

[@saracruz11]

I've just started a vision board over the summer and I find it so calming! I genuinly feel like I'm looking through a little window into the future whenever I look at it. I also have a lot a books, notebooks, laptops... Anything that helps me focus on publishing my books! One very specific thing I have is Little Mix at this year's BRIT Awards: successful women, making history, a healthy female friendship, all in happy relationships, two of them pregnant... They just represent the kind of woman I want to become in the near future!

[@2trickyvicky]

Love this! Going to try manifesting stuff. I need the motivation! Love the white dog, just be aware they are more likely to be deaf. 🐶💚

[@abbypierce4196]

Mel! Your hair looks so healthy and has grown so much! 💚💚

[@lauraschmidt3764]

Thanks for this video and for all your videos on manifestation and how your life has changed. Gives me hope in the stressful period I'm in... I'm weeks away from finishing my masters degree and I'm really afraid of not landing a job espacially in the time right now. So I hope I'll find a decent job and would love to be able to visit London/Hogwarts in the snow next year with my long-term boyfriend 💕

[@NeriAlvarez]

This video is ✨pure gold✨. I've been watching your videos probably since your uni days but this is the first time i'm writting here. I'm just so thankful that i've discovered you back in the day. Our life, visions and goals are sooo diferent, but when i see you i feel like i'm listening to an inspiring and honest friend who helps me realize that i can do everything that i set my mind to. I'm so happy to see you happy and reaching goals beyond your imagination, Mel. I'm starting my vision board today. It's my first virtual one, but i want to see how i feel about it. My main goal is moving abroad! Something that i reaaaally want to experience but i've been putting it off. Kisses from Buenos Aires!