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Mastering Stress and Time Management When Your Schedule Overflows

In today's fast-paced world, juggling multiple responsibilities has become the norm. From career demands to family obligations, our plates often overflow with tasks, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and stressed. However, mastering the art of managing stress and time can significantly improve our overall well-being and productivity. Before delving into effective ...
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2024 Plant-Based Diet: Simple Steps

As the New Year unfolds, many of us are looking for ways to improve our health and well-being. Easing into a plant-based diet can be a transformative step towards a healthier lifestyle. Diane Randall Consults is here to guide you on this journey with practical tips and ongoing support through ...
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Navigating Social Situations as a Plant-Based Eater

The holiday season is a time for socializing with friends and family, which often involves food. If you're the only one in your social circle who eats plant-based, you may feel pressured or guilted into eating unhealthy foods. Here are some tips to help you navigate social situations while following ...
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The Benefits of Knowing Oneself Can Help You Make Better Choices

The decisions you make in life determine the paths you take, the people you meet, and the experiences you have. Making informed decisions is essential to lead a fulfilling life. However, making the right decisions can be a challenge, especially when you are faced with difficult choices or lack self-awareness. ...
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Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Embracing Your Inner Critic for Personal Grow

Negative self-talk can have a profound impact on our lives, weakening self-confidence, sapping motivation, and leaving us feeling powerless. However, there is a powerful way to change this detrimental pattern and use it to our advantage. By embracing our inner critic and adopting a positive mindset, we can transform negative ...
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Setting Boundaries for a Plant-Based Life

As more people are turning to plant-based diets for health and environmental reasons, it's important to set boundaries around your plant-based food and lifestyle choices. While following a plant-based lifestyle can be rewarding and fulfilling, it's also important to establish limits and boundaries that align with your personal values and ...
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Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Try New Things

If you're feeling stuck in your life or you're not achieving the goals you've set for yourself, it might be time to step out of your comfort zone. It can be scary to try new things and take risks, but it's the only way to create the life you desire. ...
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Join the Plant Based Curious Community: Embrace a Thriving Plant-Based Lifestyle

Are you curious about the wonders of plant-based living? Do you long for a supportive community that will guide and inspire you on your journey? Look no further! The Plant Based Curious Community is here to welcome you with open arms. Join us today and discover a world of possibilities ...
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Living a Plant-Based Lifestyle

Living a plant-based lifestyle has become increasingly popular in recent years, and for good reason. Not only does it have a positive impact on the environment, but it can also improve your health and well-being. Whether you're vegetarian, vegan, meat-eater or someone whose curious about adopting a plant-based diet, here ...
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Ultimate Health: Mind, Move & Menu

Start the year off by choosing to improve your health as one of your goals. When you focus on being mentally strong, physically active, and consuming nutritious foods, you’ve created a can’t-lose lineup. A strong mind, body, and soul is a powerful combination equipping you for anything coming your way ...
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Learning to Navigate Through Difficult Family Dynamics

We each bring our personalities or whatever we have to the table at the same time and this can make people difficult. When these people are our family members it can turn challenges into chaos. So, what should you do? Understanding Why Family Dynamics are Hard There are a variety ...
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Practicing Self-Compassion

In order to understand self-compassion, it’s necessary to first define compassion. Compassion is the ability  to understand someone’s suffering. It’s feeling empathy for another by being able to put yourself in their shoes and feel their emotional pain. Now, take this approach towards yourself. Acknowledge how you feel in the ...
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Claiming Your Wellness

The concept of wellness can cover a broad range with definitions. For our purpose, wellness includes the belief that improvement is possible throughout your life. A person seeking wellness is someone continually seeking information and resources to improve themselves as a whole––mind, body, and soul. During your life journey, there ...
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Why Mindful Eating Matters

Healthy eating and balanced nutrition are considered two foundational elements for optimal health. Being mindful with your eating and nutrition in-take makes eating healthy easier to accomplish. Think about this: how frequently do you eat while doing something else? Such as eating while working on the computer when you take ...
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Staying Healthy on the Road

The words SAP Consultant and travel have a certain way of finding themselves in the same sentence. It’s a fact of this career choice. Being an SAP Consultant can be one of the most rewarding, challenging, and demanding careers – all at the same time. A hidden truth is the ...
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Driven by Choices or Habits

Having balance in your day-to-day activities has deep roots in understanding the differences between making choices and doing something out of habit. We often move through a day not giving much attention to why we’re doing what we do or to the specific order we do these mundane things. For ...
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Spring Cleaning Leads to New Energy

People like stuff. We tend to hold onto it year after year. We save it. We stock up on things we don’t know what to do with. The reasons for holding on so tightly to stuff can range from the possessions holding precious memories to the mementos reminding us of ...
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Loves Me Loves Me Not: A Lesson in Self-Care

Think back to being a teenager picking a flower then removing petal-by-petal while saying the words “loves me, loves me not.” You wished and hoped the last petal remaining would be “loves me.” The anticipation grew as each petal fell to the ground. The longing for it to be whichever ...
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Transitioning Towards a Plant-Based Food Lifestyle

Are you too busy? Too stressed out? Showing signs of being unhealthy? Let’s talk about creating wellness and balance with a holistic approach towards how you’re planning and consuming your meals. We live in a very processed world when it comes to the food choices available. In most situations, consuming ...
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Calm Your Inner Critic

Before we can conquer negative self-talk, it’s vital to identify it. When I refer to negative self-talk, I’m defining it as your inner critic. The inner voice that judges you and says the most awful things to you. This voice makes statements like: “I’m fat.” “I’m ugly.” “ I’m not ...
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Setting Boundaries by Disrupting Unhealthy Patterns

What keeps showing up for you that is not working or is an unhealthy pattern you want to break? Yes, that thing. Keep this thing in mind as we explore how patterns and boundaries are intertwined. It’s time to set this thing free and move you towards better, healthier outcomes. ...
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How Mindful Choices Change Your Life Everyday

When you are making changes, small choices make all the difference. Daily you may find yourself living with the effect of your choices. The results of the choices can range from feeling overwhelmed to feeling out of control or becoming unhealthy. These effects are all symptoms of your life slowing ...
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Conquering Procrastination

Few can say they have never fallen to procrastinating during their lifetime. Procrastinating becomes a negative word filled with judgment and thoughts of being lazy. But if you understand why it’s done, you can turn it around especially when the reasons behind it have nothing to do with laziness. Why ...
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Looking at Your Wardrobe in a Deeper Way

Some like shopping and know exactly which pieces of clothing reflect their inner being and look best on their shape while others dread and avoid shopping at all costs. Let’s turn things around by diving deeper into the way you’re viewing your wardrobe. Did you know your closet should (and ...
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relationships

Helping You Creating Better Personal & Professional Relationships

Relationships play into our success in every arena of life. From personal relationships with family and friends to professional relationships with work colleagues and clients. Every day you interact with people. Relationships are how we interact, how we find ourselves and our value, and it’s worth the time and effort ...
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3 Holistic Approaches to Relieving Anxiety

You don’t have to manage or cope with anxiety. You can truly get to the other side of it. While it may feel like you’re scaling a tall impossible mountain peak, trust that simple shifts can create lasting change. You can get over the other side. These shifts are straight-forward ...
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Mind Matters vs. Heart Matters

It’s easy to allow what’s happening around you in the world, online, or among friends distract you to the point of feeling caught in the middle of chaos—feeling too focused on mind matters instead of heart matters. Mind matters are all of those things in your head which hold your ...
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Leading Through Deep Listening

Have you ever noticed some of the most influential and effective leaders use deep listening when interacting with others? It’s through both listening and empathy for others these leaders are influencers who help to guide and bring out the best in others. Take for instance leaders in the work place. ...
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Filling Your Body with Mindfulness

Having a healthy and balanced lifestyle is managing your stress. Have you ever noticed when you’re especially stressed you tend to reach for food to fill your body? The choice in your snack bowl probably isn’t a nutritionally rich choice. Typically, the quick grab is reaching for cookies, cakes, potato ...
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Confidence Boosters for Tough Public Speaking Engagements

“Everyone’s judging me and I don’t know if I’m making sense.” “Well, maybe I don’t know what I know and everybody else knows more than me.” If you surveyed public speakers a high majority would confess to having felt at least one, if not both, of these statements at one ...
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Quieting Your Inner Voice

In my recent blog post, Trusting Your Intuition & Understanding Your Gut Instinct, we discussed listening to and understanding your inner voice. But what if the inner voice is a critic? What if the loop that plays over and over is negative self-talk that would serve you better if it ...
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Try Yoga Breathing for Health, Balance, & Longevity

Yoga breathing can be like the glue that holds everything together. Hi, I’m Diane and today I can say I know firsth and the benefits of yoga breathing. But that hasn’t always been my story. Meet me several years ago when things were a little nutty and finding balance felt ...
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2 Lessons on Excelling in Leadership

Some are born with it. Others learn it. Today we are talking about leadership and the top two ways you can excel as a leader in the workplace plus what it means to be an influencer in your industry. Every time you influence someone you are leading them whether it’s ...
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Trusting Your Intuition & Understanding Your Gut Instinct

When I invited spiritual coach and professional intuitive Bev Martin of BevMartin.com to be my guest on the Balanced Living for Busy Professional Show she pointed out strategies for embracing your intuition and how you can bring out your own brilliance. (Listen to the full podcast here.) Regardless of whether ...
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The Influence of Patterns When Setting Boundaries

Patterns are all around us. From the veins in a leaf in nature to the brickwork on a building or sidewalk in architecture. From patterns of speech to patterns of behavior, we are immersed in patterns. When it comes to setting boundaries, or feeling the freedom good boundaries provides, much ...
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Practical Ways to Transition to a Plant-based Lifestyle

Adapting to a plant-based lifestyle just got easier. How? When I invited Laura Dietrich of Pure Plant Nation to be my guest on the Balanced Living for Busy Professional Show she dished on sound strategies to tempt even the most finicky palette and debunked food myths that were holding people ...
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personal-energy

Stop Under-Performing, Start Managing Your Personal Energy

Finding freedom to focus on what’s happening in the moment takes much more than having oodles of lists or managing your time. It takes managing your personal energy. It’s all about practicing and maintaining energy wellness. It doesn’t matter how many lists you consult in a day, how organized you ...
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5 Tips to Help You Understand Why You Crave What You Crave

The body is an amazing source of intelligence. It is always there for you, pumping blood, never skipping a heartbeat, digesting whatever food you put in it and maintaining homeostasis. Is this reliable, intelligent bio-computer making a mistake by craving ice cream or a hamburger or chocolate? Are cravings due ...
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Why Forgiveness Is the Way to Healing

Have you ever downed an entire package of chips, crackers, or cookies? Do you incessantly engage in negative self-talk? Or, have you shutdown your emotions completely? Sometimes we use food and/or negative self-talk as well as other unhealthy things to help distract from feeling emotional pain. Think about it. Have ...
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Being Fully Present in Your Day

Picture this scene: A child’s sporting event is playing on the field. Parents and fans are in the stands watching. Upon a closer look, several parents have their heads down scrolling on their phone or typing on a tablet or laptop. The crowd erupts into cheers while delighted kids celebrate ...
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Practicing Proactive Heart Health

Being proactive when it comes to heart health can be a lifesaving decision. If you’re a high-level, high-functioning businessperson who seldom takes breaks, works hard, and hasn’t been paying attention to what you eat nor getting much exercise this blog post is for you. With the proper types of preventative ...
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Overcoming Weight Loss Struggles

In my recent blog post 10 Tips to Lose Weight Naturally I discussed safe natural solutions for your weight problems and your overall well-being. Now, I want to talk about some of the problems we, as Americans, face when trying to lose weight. We live in a society that makes it ...
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10 Tips to Release Weight Naturally

Would you be surprised to learn you already have everything you need – no purchases necessary – to release weight naturally? It’s true. This release happens safely while fueling your mind and body in healthy ways. The result is you become that healthy, happy person you have always wanted to ...
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Setting Boundaries in Your Life

What exactly does it mean to set and communicate personal boundaries? It’s asking yourself what you will accept from others by way of the demands they make on your time and emotional energy. For most people, when someone asks something of them, the first response is to give in to ...
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How to Really Love Yourself

This week we celebrate Valentine's Day and Love is in the air.  However, the most important love of your life is YOU.  Do you love who you are on the inside-out? Loving yourself is about taking a realistic look in the mirror and accepting and loving the person that you see  reflected ...
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Turn Any Holiday into Joyful, Never Stressful

Holidays seems to sneak up on us even though the calendar shows they are coming. Even though the stores market them weeks (or months) in advance. Before we realize, the holidays are upon us again! They seem to come faster than the year before but I assure you there are ...
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Diane Randall’s Magic Formula for Happiness Plus Recipe

Happiness is something you deserve. Happiness is something that is possible. If happiness is something you’re lacking now it can be attained with a few choices that I believe you will like making. Tell me, what makes you smile? Laugh? Go giddy with glee? For some, it’s a walk barefoot ...
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Your Mother Told You So…

Nod your head if you’ve ever felt like this: The report is due in two hours and your energy level is running on empty. You’re in the middle of a mid-term exam and your mind simply refuses to provide you the answers that you spent hours the day before studying. ...
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Asleep at the Wheel of Life

Have you ever been driving your car and suddenly realized you’ve been driving for miles, maybe even reached your destination, but didn’t remember doing the driving? This is the common phenomenon of unconscious driving. Some call it automatic pilot.  It may also be called unconscious competence – engaging in an ...
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The Serving Size Secret You Must Know

Quick quiz: How many portions are in a bag of snack-size whole grain crackers? Or a small bottle of locally-pressed juice? Or a lunchbox pack of granola bars? Hint: It’s not “one.” Often, the above products contain two or two-and-a-half servings per package. Can YOU Eat Just One? Sure, you ...
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How to Make Your Dreams Come True

The stories are everywhere – always uplifting, always inspiring: the woman who created a wellness clinic in her inner city neighborhood the man who lost 200 pounds after being housebound for a decade the mother who worked tirelessly bringing her sick child to radiant health the grandfather who quit cigarettes ...
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Exactly How Full Is Your Glass?

Picture a big glass goblet filled to the halfway mark with water. How do you see it?Half-full or half-empty? Consistently finding the glass half-empty – and the world as a difficult place – is a hallmark of negativity. Research has found that a negative outlook can contribute to everything from ...
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Living Fearlessly

Explore some helpful insight on moving from fear to freedom and happiness The First Insight: Fear can close our hearts, shape our emotional life, and freeze our emotions, but the only power that fear has is the power we give to it. We can take that power back. What we need is to ...
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Why Weight? Diets Don’t Work

You can’t turn on the TV, drive down the road or go to a party without being confronted with America’s hottest obsession: weight. Diets are a billion-dollar industry; companies spend millions and millions luring you to try the latest diet (low carb, high protein, low fat, no fat, you name ...
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12 Tips to Improve Your Emotional Wellness

It is important to remember what matters most in your life when you’re feeling down or life seems to get ahead of you. Why? Because stress can have a negative effect. It can happen to anyone from time to time. Use the following list of tips from The National Wellness ...
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Eat Protein Rich Vegetables Everyday for Better Health

Cutting back on meat reduces the risks of cancer and heart disease.  Try adding some protein rich vegetables to your meals everyday to create better health.  Choose from the list of vegetables and their protein percentages. Alfalfa sprouts = 40% Artichoke =29% Asparagus = 25% Avocado = 22% Bamboo shoots = ...
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Improve Your Friendships, Improve Your Health

The Mayo Clinic offers the following suggestions to improve your mental state by focusing on relationships and friendships. Most important, they offer several suggestions to strengthen relationships as well as ways to make new friends. Why Friendships are so Important The connections of friendship can: Increase your sense of belonging ...
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Your Brain, the Ultimate Machine

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the ...
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