Mackenzie Carose

It’s Okay If Your Path Hasn’t Changed

By Mackenzie 9 Comments

Last year at this time I worked on a vision board for what I wanted to accomplish for 2020. I was very proud of my vision board and what I created and even wrote a blog post about it, detailing what I wanted to have happen. You can read about it right here.

Let’s all take a moment to laugh, slightly hysterically, at the thought that we could get anything at all accomplished last year. *sigh* Okay, now that we’ve got that out of our system, I wanted to talk about my 2020 vision board because I honestly thought about tempting fate and making one for 2021. But I ultimately decided against it. What I wanted to accomplish last year I still want to make happen for myself.

My path hasn’t changed.

A large part of my vision board had to do with health. I want to be healthier and this is something that NEEDS to happen. Once the pandemic started and all hell broke loose last year, being and staying healthy went right out the window. Everything felt heavy and life in general seemed hard to keep up with. I’d exercise in spurts here and there and then quit. I’d eat healthy for maybe two or three days in a row, and then drink wine and eat pizza. I know life felt like that for a lot of people and that is okay. We got by. But I am determined this year to do better.

I also placed pictures on my vision board last year that had to do with blogging and photo taking. I wanted to express my creativity more, but the news/quarantine life/pandemic/doom-scrolling just took over and I did not have energy to be in this space. I want to do better in 2021 and really devote a good portion of my time to this little corner of the internet.

When I wrote last year’s vision board post, I was planning on going on a road trip in the spring. Well, the spring is when everything fell apart in the world so we didn’t go in March like we planned but we did go to Utah for a few days back in October. It was so nice to get away from everything and spend some time out in nature where they actually have an autumn season. I would like to go somewhere again (socially distanced of course) with my family this year. Hopefully that can happen 🙂

It is okay if your dreams and goals did not happen last year. It is more than okay if you want to continue to pursue the same goals this year. 2021 can be the year that we start over whether it is a new path or the same path.

Growth is growth, no matter how it happens.

In The Mood For a Vision Board

By Mackenzie 4 Comments

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?