Workplace wellness activities don’t have to be limited to “Eat less. Move more. Repeat.” In fact, one way to help employees realize why they should want to make healthier choices in the first place is to have them create a vision board. A vision board represents what you want to achieve or who you want to be, typically using photos, magazine cut-outs, and inspirational quotes or sayings.
During one of our recent weekly TOPS chapter meetings for employees, we all created our own vision boards for 2013. Since the focus of our meetings is wellness and weight management, all of our boards included pictures of healthy foods, active living, and motivational phrases. Creating your own vision board is as easy as one, two, three…
Step One: Gather poster board, glue sticks, magazines, and scissors.
Step Two: Summon creative energy from within. (Okay…this is optional; but it does help!)
Step Three: Cut out pictures and phrases of whatever will inspire you to make healthy choices like bright and colorful photos of fruits and vegetables, running shoes, or adventure races, and inspirational headlines.
We’ve all heard the saying, “Out of sight, out of mind.” Well the opposite is true, too. I leave you with a nice quote about vision (feel free to, ahem, use this quote and get started with your very own vision board today!)
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
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