1. What Does Health and Wellness Mean to You?

1. What does health and wellness mean to you?

2. Define health and wellness – what do they mean, what is included in each area?

3. Reflect on your meaning and implications for you o What are the expectations for yourself? o Identify your strengths and challenges

4. What are some positive heath behaviors in which you engage? Why are they significant? Discuss a minimum of three.

5. What are some negative behaviors you wish to change? Identify as many as you can and discuss what the implications to your health are if you do not change them.

6. What would optimal health look like for you? Who supports you in that goal? What additional support do you need?

B. Create a plan for changing one health behavior. Follow these steps and complete template.

1. HEALTH CHANGES Determine areas of health you wish to change- identify 3

PHYSICAL Nutrition Sleep

HEALTH: Exercise Safe sex

Weight management Managing disease

Regular examinations Avoiding harmful habits

Dental health

SOCIAL Communication skills Support system of friends and family HEALTH: Ability to establish and maintain relationships

INTELLECTUAL Sense of humor Thinking critically

HEALTH: Creativity Decision making

Lifelong learning Openness MENTAL & Managing Stress Optimism

EMOTIONAL Self-efficacy/ Awareness & Sharing of HEALTH: feelings Self esteem Autonomy /Authenticity Realism

SPIRITUAL Compassion Fulfillment

HEALTH: Forgiveness Sense of meaning and purpose Altruism

ENVIRONMENTAL Clean natural Safety of food and water environment HEALTH: Recycling practices Safe environment

TEMPLATE OF BEHAVIOR CONTRACT

1. HEALTH / WELLNESS CHANGES I will make changes in the following 3 areas A.

2. SMART GOALS – http://www.wikihow.com/Set-SMART-Goals I, ______, agree to work on the SMART Goals as listed below. These are related to the Health/Wellness Changes category I have indicated above.

SMART GOAL (Steps to reaching your dream) TO BE REACHED BY: 1.

3. MOTIVATION & CONFIDENCE –

I rate my motivation and confidence on a scale of 0-10

My motivation is _____ My confidence is: _____

4. TIMEFRAME I will begin on ______and plan to reach my goal by ______.

5. OBJECTIVES To reach my final goal above, I have planned the following schedule of objectives. For each step in my program, I will give myself the reward listed.

Objective Due Date Reward Smart Goal 1 1. 2. 3. Smart Goal 2 1. 2. 3. Smart Goal 3 1. 2. 3.

6. MONITOR I will use the following tools to monitor my progress toward my final goal:

7. CHALLENGES I anticipate the following challenges as I work towards my goal, and have identified effective strategies for minimizing those challenges.

Challenge Strategy Smart Goal 1 Smart Goal 2

Smart Goal 3

1. I sign this contract to indicate my personal commitment to reach my goal.

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