Mackenzie Carose

In The Mood For a Vision Board

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I haven’t done a vision board in eons, probably sometime in the last decade. But I was inspired to create my own after seeing fellow blogger Jessica Rose Williams create one. It is nice to put your thoughts and dreams onto a nice piece of posterboard and just let that creativity roam free.

All I did was pick up a piece of posterboard from the local craft store. I grabbed some magazines, scissors, and a glue stick and got to work.

Health and wellness are the very top of my 2020 list. I want to get back into yoga, which is an activity I haven’t done in years, but always enjoyed. Eating healthfully, taking my vitamins, meditation, exercise, etc… are all important to having a healthy immune system, which is what I am all about 🙂

I want to get in the kitchen and create more plant-based meals for my family. Creativity is also important to me and I want to express myself more on here with my blog.

Natural beauty means overhauling what I currently use on my face in terms of cleansers and make-up. I don’t wear a lot of make-up but what I do wear, I want it to be good for my skin.

I also want to incorporate more fun in my life and less of the monotony. That calls for a road trip! 🙂 We have one scheduled for this spring and I can’t wait.

Have you ever done a vision board? Do you need to creatively express your goals?

As The Page Turns: January Edition

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New year, new month, new book review!

Those People by Louise Candlish

Excellent contemporary English mystery about what happens when a couple moves in to a neighborhood and become the epitome of the “neighbors from hell”. When a horrific death happens, everyone starts pointing fingers on this quiet little street and everyone has something to hide.

Blowout by Rachel Maddow

The oil and gas industry is super corrupt and their ties to Russia go back to way before the 2016 election. It is all intertwined and complicated, but Maddow does an excellent job in explaining it all and making it make sense.

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

A great read on social media and its effects on how we function and operate. If social media gives you anxiety or puts you into a funk, or you are just ready to throw your smart phone out the window, then this is the book for you. Learn how to curate whom you follow on social media and use it for the fun purposes like it was initially intended.

Climate Justice by Mary Robinson

This book was amazing. Mary Robinson is the former President of Ireland and worked previously for the UN fighting climate change and all the resounding issues that go along with it. In this book, she interviews different people all over the world, talking to them and sharing their stories about climate change is impacting their lives and their towns/villages. This book was fascinating and it will open your eyes to what is truly going on in other parts of the world.

That’s it from me! Any interesting books you guys have read lately?

My Word For 2020

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As you may know if you have been reading my blog posts long enough, I don’t really do resolutions per se. I am more about changing a behavior or something along that vein. Last year’s word for 2019 was Simplify.

My word for 2020 is Change.

Last year was a hard year for me mentally. I feel like with the new decade right in front of us, I feel the need for a change. Old patterns need to go. The ruts need to beclimbed out of. The  mindset needs to alter.

A shift is happening within me and I am welcoming it.What all of this encompasses, is still part of the road map that I am experimenting with and attempting to figure out. But friends,  I feel lighter somehow. Already. Iconversion from old ways of looking at things to new and improved ways of figuring things out.

I have dreams that are taking shape in my mind, outlines at best, but the picutures are attempting to form. It will require me to get out of my comfort zone, and for once I am okay with that.

I don’t feel any trepidation, just hopefulness.

And that I feel, encompasses change. Don’t you think?

2020 brings the promise of something new, my friends.

Are you more of a goal-setting sort of person, or did you too choose a word to encompass this year?