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REAL LIVES
‘The universe
grants my wishes’
I trained as a
yoga teacher
in 2017
With love and children in my life, my
2021 letter focused on my career. I hoped
to find a teaching assistant’s job with hours
that would fit around my family. Three
months later, I landed the perfect job.
It might sound like I always manifest
what’s on my list, but that’s not the case. I did
my yoga teacher training in September 2017,
and had visions of travelling and teaching
yoga, but that didn’t work out. Instead, I fell
pregnant, and I couldn’t be happier.
I think sometimes the universe takes an
executive decision and delivers what’s best for
you. Part of the process of writing the wish
letters is to ask, but then let go of any preconceived
outcome. This year, why don’t you
put pen to paper and try it for yourself?
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Lucy Pemberton-Platt has a special New Year’s Day ritual
that’s brought her money, career success – and lasting love
Pen in hand, I settled down to
write the familiar words on the
beautiful paper in my journal.
Dear Universe…
I’ve been writing a wish letter to the
universe – filled with all the lovely dreams
I want to realise over the coming 12 months
– on January 1st, every year since 2009,
when I first read about manifesting.
As soon as I’ve written each letter, I read
it through, pop it in an envelope, address
the envelope to myself, stick a stamp on it
and head for the postbox. Posting my wish
letters back to myself makes them feel more
real, fuels their energy and power.
And when they plop through my letterbox,
I put them in a keepsake box. I like to read
them months later and savour a sense of
gratitude for what’s been manifested.
In my very first wish letter, I asked to
manifest £10,000 because to me it felt like
a realistic amount, not too fantastical, and
in The Secret, a book all about the Law of
Attraction, author Rhonda Byrne suggests
asking for a ‘believable sum’.
Not long afterwards, I landed a job contract
at an international school in Dubai, teaching
five year olds. Out of the blue, I was given an
unexpected bonus of… £10,000!
In 2010, I focused my letter on travelling to
America and listed all the places I wanted
to visit – San Francisco, LA and New York.
I also wished to meet the American spiritual
author Susan Jeffers who wrote Feel the Fear
and Do It Anyway.
To help the universe along, I wrote to Susan
and explained how inspirational I found her
book and asked if I could meet her in person.
I never expected her to say yes – but she invited
me for a one-to-one at her home in Santa
Monica, California. It was especially kind as her
health wasn’t good at the time. It felt surreal!
The whole experience was amazing. Susan
also granted me a licence to teach her ‘Feel
Walking in the
park with Darcy
and Indie
‘I think the
universe
often takes
an executive
decision!’
the Fear and do it Anyway’ course in the UK.
I was already trained in neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP), counselling and
coaching and to progress my career in this
way with this wonderful woman’s help was
truly an honour.
And guess what, I used that manifested
£10,000 to pay for the US trip visiting the
places on my wish list, including Central
Park and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Finding my soul match
In my wish letter in 2014, I asked the
universe to help me find the focus to write
a self-help book. That September, I selfpublished
The Break-Up Cure.
With that box ticked, it wasn’t long
before I was seeking a new challenge
and the following year, I got a new job in
London teaching maths and English for a
private education company.
For a time, I was happy enough, but
come January 2016 I knew exactly what to
write in my wish letter – that London isn’t
quite what I thought it would be, although
I’m grateful for the work, but I would like
to move to Manchester to be nearer my
family and the countryside, and make a new
circle of kind friends.
Come the autumn, I’d been offered a transfer
to Manchester. Not only that, but it was a
promotion that came with a bigger salary.
The following January, I was feeling content
with my work situation; it was my personal
life that needed some attention.
I feel ready to find my soul match, I wrote in
my wish letter. I’ve been single on and off for
10 years and want to settle down.
As I’ve never had any expectations about
how my wish letter dreams will come to
fruition, or their timing, when Joel, an old
school friend, messaged me on Facebook
out of the blue in August 2017 I didn’t
immediately think ‘romance’.
Joel, Darcy,
Indie and me
However, when he asked me out on a date,
I simply thought ‘why not’. I trusted the
universe completely.
Delivering what’s best
Within two months, Joel and I were making
plans for our future and by December 2017,
I was happily pregnant.
With a baby on the way, my 2018 letter
focused on having a healthy pregnancy and
finding a new home for our growing family.
We viewed the perfect property in December
2018. Sometimes it can take time for things to
become a reality!
The house was worth the wait. The property
had failed to sell at auction and as a result the
price had been dropped to within our budget.
What’s more, it was only a road away from
my mum and in an area we loved – all details
that were in my wish letter. We got the keys in
March 2019 and moved in five months later,
after renovation work had been carried out.
Meanwhile, in my wish letter that same
year, I had already asked for a sibling for
Darcy, who’s now three. I fell pregnant again
the first time we tried and Indie, now 18
months old, was born in March 2020.
Write your wish letter
Lucy shares her top tips for writing to the universe
♥ Choose some nice
paper and a lovely pen.
♥ Go somewhere you
love, like a coffee shop or
a favourite room in your
house, and enjoy the
process of writing about
everything you’re grateful
for currently in your life.
Then, write a list of all the
things you would like the
universe to help you
manifest over the next
12 months.
♥ Open your letter with
‘Dear Universe’ and start
writing as if you’re
speaking to a best friend.
Be open about your
hopes, fears and dreams.
Keep writing until you’ve
said all you want to say.
♥ Once you’ve finished,
read the letter back once,
and then, without delay,
‘Be open about
your hopes
and dreams’
Tr y it
now!
put it in an envelope,
address it c/o yourself and
post it.
♥ When the letter arrives
put it in a safe place to
read at a later date. Often
you need a bit of time for
things to start to manifest.
If you’re too attached to
the outcome, you forget
the most important part of
the process – the journey.
♥ Keep your wish letters
in a bundle tied with pretty
ribbon and in a place that’s
special to you.
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