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  • EXPERIENCE NUTRITION: Food & Lifestyle Tip: Create Stay-at-Home Vision Board in 60 Minutes

    EXPERIENCE NUTRITION: Food & Lifestyle Tip: Create Stay-at-Home Vision Board in 60 Minutes

    While our families and friends around the world are all at home with the Coronavirus Stay-at-Home, this might be an ideal time to create a Vision Board for the future forward view of our lives. At this point, we know our lives have changed and are changing almost daily. So, this may be the time to re-evaluate and reflect on what our ideal future looks like.

    I’ve been creating vision boards for decades, nearly every year, and I have found that the process is valuable for focus and to help me reach my goals. I’ve also had the incredible opportunity to lead vision board experiences in Nosara, Costa Rica and with former NFL players!  – Melanie Albert

    Steps to Create Your Vision Board

    Gather Your Supplies

    • Quiet place for you
    • Your favorite magazines and personal photos
    • Glue stick
    • Paper and pen
    • Posterboard
    • Candle and green tea

    Vision Board Steps

    Rather than start by cutting photos from magazines, this vision board process begins with written reflections for clarity, and the creation of the visual vision board with photos and words.

    1. A Quiet Place. (2 minutes) Find a quiet place where you’ll have about an hour to focus on you. Begin by lighting a candle.
    2. Relax. (2 minutes) Close your eyes, breathe in deeply, and exhale completely 4 times.
    3. Goals. (5 minutes) Very quickly write 10 responses to the question: What are the top goals you’d like to achieve a year from now. Be creative, out-of-the box. And dream big!
    4. Top Goals. (5 minutes) Look at your list. Quickly, which goal is the most important to you? Do this again 4 more times until you have your top 5 goals prioritized.
    5. Meaning to Me. (10 minutes) Starting with your top goal, write what each means to you. Write a few keywords, a sentence, and/or paragraph.
    6. Photos and Words. (15 minutes) Look through your magazines and photos and cut out images and words for each of your goal areas.
    7. Vision Board. (5 minutes) Glue your photos onto your poster board or paper. Have fun!
    8. Positive Affirmations. (10 minutes) Create positive affirmations around your vision board, in the present tense, as if they are already happening. For instance, “I am a successful international plant-based retreat leader”.
    9. Integration. (3 minutes) Say out loud the affirmations and meanings from your vision board. Feel your future visions emotionally, and believe your future life as if you are already living your goals.
    10. Action. (3 minutes) Based on your goals, write down your top 3 actions to achieve your goals.

    If you wish, feel free to share your vision board on our newly updated Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ExperienceNutritionAZ

    By Melanie Albert, Plant-Based Cooking Leader, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona. Award-winning cookbook author, speaker, corporate wellness, team building, retreat leader, and caterer.

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    Melanie Albert 2017 Vision Board

     

     

  • EXPERIENCE NUTRITION: Food & Lifestyle Tip: Pause. Take Time for You Today!

    EXPERIENCE NUTRITION: Food & Lifestyle Tip: Pause. Take Time for You Today!

    [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]Today, I invite you to take time for you! Over the last few weeks, with the Coronavirus stay-at-home, all of our schedules, routines, work have shifted dramatically. Our responsibilities have changed. Today, take time for you.   Just you. Take time. To do nothing. To slow down. To rest. To relax. To restore. Pause and feel what you’d like to do today, just for you. A few ideas to get started:
    • A few minutes of quiet time, simply listening to your breath.
    • Light a candle. And sit.
    • Go out in nature, and look at the sky, listen to the birds, hear the stillness of our Earth.
    • Practice yoga and really feel the poses in your body.
    • Journal a few things you are grateful for today.
    • Take a warm bath with candles, Epsom salts, and quiet, meditative music.
    A glimpse into my quiet moments of self care with candle, nature, and birds.- Melanie Albert
    I invite you to come over to our newly updated ExperienceNutritionAZ Facebook page and share a photo or your thoughts on your personal “me time”. By Melanie Albert, Plant-Based Cooking Leader, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona. Award-winning cookbook author, speaker, corporate wellness, team building, retreat leader, and caterer.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]