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The Importance of Implementing Strategies and Monitoring Progress
Implementing strategies and monitoring progress is very important while attempting to achieve personal health goals because this will help to keep you on track, motivate you, and make the goal worthwhile in the end. -
The iBook says...
The iBook says, "Setting successful health goals therefore need to consider the following factors...your general health goals...healthy eating...exercise and fitness...life balance..." (Goal 7). -
Furthermore...
Furthermore, setting your goal with the SMART model in mind, and considering all of the factors that may impact your success are good ways to help you succeed. -
As the iBook states...
As the iBook states, "You only have one body – so look after it! By setting yourself effective health goals, you’ll maximize your life span and enjoy your life more too!" (Goal 7). -
Getting More Sleep
A specific example of a personal health goal that I have made in my life was when I made the goal to go to bed before midnight every day. I began this goal around August last year. -
Considerations
When making this goal, I had to consider several things. Most importantly was that I was constantly tired. This made me realize that I had to make an effort to get more sleep in order to improve my personal well being. -
Making A Start
Once I had a goal in mind, I had to get started. This was difficult at first because I had gotten in the habit of staying up very late. -
Getting Educated
"Like all good goals, you need to research the goal before you
commit to it and to enable you to prepare suitable Action
Plans for achieving it" (Goal 9). With this goal, I had to research about sleep and discover that I should be getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. -
Monitoring my Health Goal
The next step was to work on achieving my goal every night and monitoring my progress. An important aspect of this is making my goal measurable so that I can tell if I am achieving it or not. This goal was pretty easy to monitor, because I just had to note if I went to bed before midnight or not. -
Conclusion
Overall, this goal was successful for me. However, I still need to get more sleep, so now I need to move on to trying to go to bed before 11:00. Regardless of the goal, keeping these things in mind will help me to be more successful when it comes to health goals. However, I can't expect results over night. As the iBook states, "It may take up to 12 months to start feeling healthy and energetic or overcome some other particular health ailments" (Goal 10). -
Source: “Goal Setting Skills.” Health iBook.