LifeStages

Happy Fall, Life Stagers!

To celebrate this transition, we’re taking inspiration from the transitional season to help you align and finish off the year strong! As the days grow shorter and the air crisper, challenge yourself to embrace the changes around you by creating new routines, setting meaningful intentions, and envisioning your upcoming path. This seasonal transition from summer to fall is the perfect time to reflect, reset, and realign with your personal goals!

To help you, we’ll be focusing on goal-setting and vision-boarding in this issue and diving into straightforward strategies to set powerful goals and create a vision that inspires you.

Goal-setting is a key aspect of wellness, helping you focus on personal growth and creating a sense of self and achievement. From highlighting the importance of SMART Goals and maintaining a Growth Mindset to vision boards, we will walk you through essential techniques to keep you healthy, aligned, and motivated!

As always, we’ll wrap up with the latest Life Stages updates. Get access to Align’s beta, check out upcoming events, and learn about our new newsletter frequency!

Happy leaf-crunching season! 🍂
-Your Life Stages Wellness Team

Specific: Make your goal clear and detailed. Say exactly what you want to do. Example: Instead of “I want to be healthier,” say “I want to walk for 30 minutes every day.”

Measurable: Make sure you can track your progress. Add numbers so you know when you’ve reached your goal. Example: “I want to make 2 new friends” gives you something you can aim for and measure progress with.

Achievable: Pick a goal you can reach, but that still pushes you a little. Example: If you don’t exercise much now, start with something like walking 3 times a week instead of trying to run a marathon right away.

Relevant: Make sure your goal matters to you and fits with your bigger plans to help you stay on track. Example: If you want less stress, a relevant goal might be meditating daily, rather than something unrelated like adding another priority to your already full schedule.

Time-bound: Set a deadline for your goal so you stay motivated and focused. This helps you commit to a specific time period in a way that doesn’t overwhelm you and allows you to reassess and adjust. Example: “I will walk 30 minutes every day for the next 2 months.”

Creating a vision board is a powerful way to achieve your goals and dreams by keeping them front and center in your everyday life.

By putting together images, words, and phrases that align with your goals, a vision board acts as a visual reminder of what you want to achieve. The process of making one can be both fun and inspiring, and it’s much simpler than you might think!

What is a vision board? A vision board is more than just a collage; it’s a tool for turning your dreams into reality. By seeing your goals every day, you’re constantly reminded of them! This will help you stay motivated and focused.

It is important to approach goal setting with an open mind, specifically with a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset. These two ways of thinking can greatly impact how you set goals and your ability to achieve them!

What is a Fixed Mindset? People with a fixed mindset believe their abilities can’t change, so they avoid challenges, fear failure, and set easy goals, thinking they can’t improve.

What is a Growth Mindset? People with a growth mindset believe they can improve their abilities with effort and learning. They see challenges as chances to grow and view failures as learning steps. This mindset helps them set higher goals and keep going despite obstacles.

Align’s beta is officially up and running!

Align is a Life Stages’ app designed to help you build and maintain sustainable mind-body health through personalized mindfulness and nature-oriented interventions. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and somatic practices, Align offers a range of features to support your wellness journey.

For those who have signed up to be beta testers, be on the lookout for an email with more information next week. If you have not yet signed up, feel free to get on the list! Our community members get first access to Align before our public launch– you’re welcome! 😉 💫

Events are back!

After taking a hiatus to focus on the Align app, organizational development, and capacity-building, we are excited to bring you a few events to close 2024 off strong!

Check out the next couple of events below:

Check our Community page regularly for all upcoming and newly added events. Build wellness with others also prioritizing health & personal development!

Our newsletter frequency is changing!

Instead of monthly newsletters, we are now moving to bi-monthly. Get your wellness tips every other month starting this month!

Why?
First, we don’t want to spam your inbox and we’re confident we can give you more than enough tools to practice for 2 months worth. Tied to this the factor of efficiency— we want to make sure we’re directing our energy to Align and our community events to help you work on your wellness in a more hands-on manner. Therefore, we’ll ease up on the newsletters to increase our capacity for our other services and connections to you!

Reply to this email if you have questions, comments, or feedback! We love co-building with you all!