Get a Plan

Before long many will  be thinking about New Year's resolutions...why not beat the crowds, and start thinking about it now?! Creating a personal wellness strategy makes all your efforts even more meaningful, and productive. 

Maybe your vision is to exercise for stress relief three times a week.  Maybe it's to lose 25 pounds next year.  Maybe it's to get yourself to all needed check-ups. 

What will truly bring the most positive force to your life?  When setting up those goals it's important to connect those goals to your personal stategy.  Identifying and giving some planning to your goals boosts your chances of succes, in fact many goals are not met due specifically to a lack of strategy.  

So take a few minutes to think identify your "big picture."  What do you really need? What do you really want? What's most meangful for you? What would most make you feel happier and healthier?

Use those kinds of questions to come up with specific wellness goals. Then, for each one:_

---picture how you will feel/look/behave when the goal is reached.

---find specific motivation---what's fueling you to get there?

---think about what obstacles may be in your way, and how you can plow through them.

---share it with friends/family.  Recruit loved ones to hold you accountable and keep you on track (bring them to class with you!)

as you move forward, re-evaluate, re-vamp (if necessary)and renew your goals.

celebrate successes in baby steps!

Once you have your list together, go over it again and sort based on highest priority.  Let go of the things that really don't matter.  Tackle the things you most want to acheive first.  Think of the time needed to do so as an ealy holiday gift to you, from you. On a psychological level, planning in this way fuels a sense of confidence, and control that will spread into other areas of life, and also help to increase your feelings of overall health and wellness.