Lesson 5

Goal SettingYour Personal Health Inventory should be

scored.

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

Please think of what you are grateful for.Complete NUMBER 2 only !!! ~I am grateful for… OR~I am thankful for…Keep in the front of your binder…behind the Thought for the Day worksheet

OBJECTIVES:I CAN…

Identify the benefits of setting goals.

Identify the three keys to motivation.

Identify the steps to achieving a goal.

Create a personal health/wellness goal.

WELLNESS CONTINUUM

Draw the continuum on your whiteboard. Plot these behaviors on the continuum?

Cyberbullying Practicing Yoga

Anorexic/bulemic eating behaviorsSetting goals

Early Death High Level of

Wellness HIGH RISK Moderate Risk LOW RISK

BEHAVIORS Behaviors BEHAVIORS

Using the white board…respond to the following

question:

What are the benefits of living on the high

level of wellness?

Brainstorm

1. Write down three benefits of setting goals.

2. Write down, on the side of your paper, what you believe are the three keys to motivation.

3. Write down three things you need to do to achieve goals.

WEB ORGANIZER

Browse READ the two chapters in the packet:

“Real Motivation Comes from Within” and “Goals are Dreams with Deadlines.”

Search for the correct information to complete the web organizer.

HINT: Look for the headings that contain the information your are searching for…

CONCEPT MAPBenefits of Setting Goals

Enjoyment Fulfillment Motivation Independence Meaning Give us direction

and purpose

CONCEPT MAP:Three Keys to Motivation

Desire – the seed from which all achievement grows…wanting something.

Belief – looking for why “I CAN…” rather than why I can’t.

Mental Picture – seeing it in your mind…an image.

CONCEPT MAPHow To Achieve Goals

Understand the difference between a goal and a wish – goals are dreams with deadlines.

Write them down and make them specific.

Categorize and balance your goals. Review and revise your goals

regularly.

DVD

Look on the backside of your web organizer.

As you watch the clip with Bob Green re: goals, jot down some ideas that he shares for each area.

Five Steps to Be Willing and Motivated

Step 1: Have a realistic vision for yourself.

Picture your life the way you want it.Decisions need to align with your vision.

Five Steps to Be Willing and Motivated

Step 2: Convince yourself you deserve your vision.

Look at your level of worthiness. What do you believe?In your “heart” you know you “can” do it.

Five Steps to Be Willing and Motivated

Step 3: Identify the Barriers holding you back.Know the difference from an excuse and a barrier.A Barrier is an issue.Know your own level of discomfort.

Five Steps to Be Willing and Motivated

Step 4: Break through the Barriers.Develop coping mechanisms to break through the barriers.Need to make tough choices and decisions.

Five Steps to Be Willing and Motivated

Step 5: Put yourself first.Get the support you need.Get people in your life on board with your plan.Take care of yourself.

Behavior and Wellness

Looking back at factors that determine your health, which category had the biggest impact on death rate?

We have full control over our behaviors and yet they have the biggest impact on our death rate.

A suggestion would be to focus on our eating habits as a potential goal.

This is due to the fact that 67% of Americans are overweight.

Goal Plan

STEP #1 – Identify 3 behaviors that you would be willing to change

STEP #2 – Choose one behavior from your list that you will try to achieve by the end of the semester in Health class. THIS WILL BE YOUR GOAL.

** Remember this goal needs to be something that you truly desire to do, believe that you can do and creates a mental picture of yourself doing it.

STEP #2 – choose one behavior from your list (in #1) that you will try to achieve by the end of the marking period in November.

S = Specific M =Measureable A = Attainable R = Relevant T = Timely

Goal Plan

STEP #3- What is your motivation to change. Reasons for choosing this goal. How does this behavior impact your life?

STEP #4 -List 3-5 specific things you will need to do to reach your goal. Think of them as “baby steps…”

STEP#5 – What may prevent you from your goal? List 1-2 barriers.

Goal Plan

STEP #6 – How will you get past this barrier? What specific thing can you do to overcome the barrier?

STEP #7- How will you keep track of your progress?

STEP #8– Who will help/support you in reaching this goal?

STEP #9 – How will reward yourself if/when you reach your goal?

REMEMBER…This goal needs to be something that youtruly desire to do,

believe that you can do and

creates a mental picture of yourself doing it.

THINK POSITIVE

A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

French writer (1900 - 1944)

Good luck on your goal!!