Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
Creating habits to succeed at your goals? Believe you are capable.
When you fail to achieve a goal or establish a habit, what barriers are most likely preventing your forward progress? Who or what is...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Want to achieve your goals? Replace or reduce negative habits.
Habits are automatic behaviors, actions we take without conscious thought. To change a habit requires the opposite – conscious thought...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Creating habits to meet your goals? Make them easy and convenient.
If you visit a new website, do you appreciate it being user-friendly and easy to navigate? If you are searching for a new recipe, do you...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Want to create habits to achieve your goals? Make an action plan.
What have you wished for that hasn’t come to fruition? Stop and think – did you have a plan in place to make that wish a reality? Likely...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Want to create habits to achieve your goals? Do first things first.
When do you most often set goals? At New Year’s when making resolutions is considered the thing to do? In fact, if you don’t set goals at...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
Want to achieve your goals? Reflect first, then take action.
Do you set New Year’s resolutions? If so, you’re not alone. Research indicates that more than 40% of Americans set resolutions at this...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
Why do traditions give holidays meaning? They remind us what is important.
What traditions are most important to you, your family, your community, and your audiences? When you think about the holiday season, as...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Dec 9, 2022
- 3 min
How does communicating kindness improve our well-being and our world?
Kindness. What does it mean to you? It goes beyond being nice. It is demonstrating compassion, grace, empathy, goodwill, mercy,...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
Are you a single or multi-tasker? Which gets more done, better?
We may be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but can we effectively and accurately complete more complex tasks or projects while...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
Seeking happiness? Move gratitude from just an attitude to a way of life.
The pursuit of happiness. A right listed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence along with life and liberty. A call to personal...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
Can gratitude lead to success? How does it impact our personal and professional lives?
Do you want to be more successful in your personal and professional life? Who doesn’t!? When thinking about factors that could lead to...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
Did you know gratitude is good for you? Let me count the ways.
Do you feel grateful? Do you say thank you or write notes of appreciation? Are you characterized by an “attitude of gratitude”? In the...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
What is gratitude? A feeling, an action, or a character trait?
Gratitude. That’s a word one hears a lot at this time of year, the season of Thanksgiving. We are encouraged to have an attitude of...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Sep 30, 2022
- 6 min
What difference do family meals make? What does the research say?
Do family meals matter? What difference do they make? What does the research say? Family meals are associated with many benefits Research...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
Do you want more frequent family meals? You can overcome the barriers!
Did you experience family meals growing up? Do you experience family meals today? I have asked those questions to hundreds of audience...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Sep 16, 2022
- 4 min
Mealtime conversations show you care and make your family stronger
Can you recall a great conversation during a meal? Maybe it lasted well past the food was eaten and the dishes were cleared away. You...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Sep 9, 2022
- 4 min
How do cultures around the world celebrate food and family at meals?
Meals eaten with family are valued around the world. They are valued for not only the nourishing food they provide but more so for the...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
What do people value most about eating meals with others?
For many years, when I presented about family meals, I collected feedback from my audiences about their experiences with and beliefs...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Aug 26, 2022
- 3 min
To create or change habits should you take small steps or bold moves?
Habits are a wonderful tool for achieving our goals because they automate the behaviors that are necessary for reaching those goals. The...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RD, LD, FAND
- Aug 19, 2022
- 3 min
What does healthy mean?
When communicating about nutrition, the adjective “healthy” is used a LOT. Consider the many ways we use the word healthy as a descriptor...
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