Home + Life By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA If you’re wondering how to reach your goals and dreams, creating a vision board may be the first step to help you find clarity. A vision board is a visualization tool to help you manifest your goals, hopes, dreams and desires. However, there’s one catch. You need to take action. Have fun creating a vision board to help you design a healthy home and life. Vision…
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Design and build your emergency kit to include household items that you may need in case of an emergency. There are different types of emergencies, from medical emergencies to chemical emergencies to natural disasters etc. It’s easy to design and build your own emergency kit so you can prepare for the unexpected. This can help reduce stress in case an emergency occurs. Natural disasters range from hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tornados to blizzards, windstorms and…
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Where do you go to unwind to reduce stress? Do you take time just for you? Do you have a place in your home where you go to unwind, relax and reduce stress? A place that brings you harmony, balance and happiness? A special sweet spot in your home where you can go to #take15minutes to focus on you? I love this Tweet from Elle Décor Magazine, “A Colorful Look At The Home…
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Healthy Design Element: The Color Blue The Color Blue – It can spark happiness, bring calmness or ignite boldness and energy. I love the color blue. It reminds me of the beauty in nature, a clear blue sky, the ocean, flowers, birds, and butterflies. (It also brings back great memories. My dad had beautiful blue eyes.) One of my favorite places to travel is the Caribbean. The tranquil turquoise waters are truly spectacular. Blue is…
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Declutter your home and life, but first you need to ask yourself one very important question. Organization is the Achilles heel of so many rooms. The golden rule: There must be a place for everything. Imagine having just the right space for it all. Using space in the right way can bring harmony and balance to your life. You can be organized in the smallest of places. Just take a look at these New York…
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Who doesn’t love a quick makeover? Sometimes, all it takes is new throw pillows or a bold new wall paint color to completely refresh the look of a room. Similarly, there are quick “projects” you can do starting right now to change how you feel, and even look, every day. Small change can create big impact! Just like grouping family photos on a wall or placing all the things on your coffee in…
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Make it happen. It’s time to passionately and purposefully engage in your life and start designing a healthy and spectacular you. By defining and unwrapping your personal style, living a happier and healthier life begins to unfold. A healthy life is about living blissfully, with passion and purpose, not just about the absence of disease. The great news is that we can design our own healthy lifestyle plan just like interior designers create beautiful…
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