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10 ways our environment is making us fatter
Barb Mayfield
  • Feb 2, 2018
  • 3 min

10 ways our environment is making us fatter

If you ask people on the street why people are getting fatter, you will get as many answers as the number of people you ask. People with ...
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Climb that mountain! Achieve your goals.
Barb Mayfield
  • Jan 26, 2018
  • 2 min

Climb that mountain! Achieve your goals.

4 weeks into 2018, what percentage of New Year’s resolutions have been forgotten? Too many! Yours don’t have to be. Achieve your goals by...
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Why I love to teach nutrition to children
Barb Mayfield
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • 3 min

Why I love to teach nutrition to children

What is your favorite food? Why did you pick that food? Does thinking about eating it conjure up good memories? Was it one of your favori...
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Have you written “18 for 2018”?
Barb Mayfield
  • Jan 12, 2018
  • 2 min

Have you written “18 for 2018”?

I am a goal setter, but I don’t limit myself to resolutions only at New Year’s. However, I do annually spend some time at the start of ea...
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What does the future hold?
Barb Mayfield
  • Jan 5, 2018
  • 2 min

What does the future hold?

What does 2018 hold in store? We cannot look into a crystal ball, but we can determine what we would like our future to be and set specif...
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Lessons from a full house
Barb Mayfield
  • Dec 29, 2017
  • 2 min

Lessons from a full house

Between December 18th and 30th our home hosted up to 25 members of our extended family, including 6 young children between the ages of 1 ...
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Are you overwhelmed?
Barb Mayfield
  • Dec 22, 2017
  • 2 min

Are you overwhelmed?

Raise your hand if you are feeling overwhelmed. During this season of the year, planning and preparing for events, completing projects, a...
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Do you accept or reject?
Barb Mayfield
  • Dec 15, 2017
  • 2 min

Do you accept or reject?

When someone poses an idea, what is your reaction? To accept and add to it, or to knock it down? When we block the ideas of others we sto...
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How Improv Connects Audiences
Barb Mayfield
  • Dec 8, 2017
  • 3 min

How Improv Connects Audiences

What does “connection” with an audience mean to you? That they aren’t asleep or playing video games on their phone? True connection impli...
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What does it take to be a successful communicator?
Barb Mayfield
  • Dec 1, 2017
  • 2 min

What does it take to be a successful communicator?

Successful nutrition communicators possess more than the required knowledge and skills. Successful communicators demonstrate specific cha...
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The secret to holiday happiness is…
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 24, 2017
  • 2 min

The secret to holiday happiness is…

Buy less stuff - Make more memories. Are you making a list and checking it twice? I am too… but this year it is a list of memory-making a...
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Let’s get engaged!
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 17, 2017
  • 2 min

Let’s get engaged!

Getting engaged is exciting, it’s memorable, and it’s planned. Audience engagement in a presentation can also be exciting and memorable, ...
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3 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 10, 2017
  • 2 min

3 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Simplest answer: 1. write, 2. write, 3. write. We become better writers by writing. But there is more to it than writing. If we don’t ass...
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Write to be remembered
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 3, 2017
  • 3 min

Write to be remembered

Last week I spent 5 days in South Haven, Michigan with a group of my closest friends. We have been vacationing near Lake Michigan for 12 ...
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“Make new friends but keep the old…”
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 27, 2017
  • 3 min

“Make new friends but keep the old…”

“… one is silver and the other’s gold” – are lines from a song I learned long ago as a Girl Scout. Good advice, especially when attending...
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Convention bound? Create and cultivate connections.
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 20, 2017
  • 2 min

Convention bound? Create and cultivate connections.

LinkedIn, Twitter, webinars, and conference calls are all essential tools to keep connected in today’s workplace. In spite of these techn...
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You CAN overcome stage fright!
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 13, 2017
  • 3 min

You CAN overcome stage fright!

Your mouth goes dry. Your skin flushes. You break out in a sweat. Your knees knock. Your heart races. You can’t catch your breath. You ma...
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Smile and say, “Cheese”!
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 6, 2017
  • 3 min

Smile and say, “Cheese”!

What's so great about smiling? Smiling is one of the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and most effective self-improvement strategies there is...
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What I learned at the table
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 29, 2017
  • 2 min

What I learned at the table

I venture that outside of formal school I have learned more around a table sharing meals with others than any other single place. I’ve le...
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Could eating together help us live longer?
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 22, 2017
  • 3 min

Could eating together help us live longer?

Our country is in the midst of a “loneliness epidemic.” Consider these statistics: More than one-fourth of all American households consis...
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