Week 6: Set Goals and Prioritize

Welcome to the sixth week of Healthy Lifestyle's Healthy Holidays program!  Now is the time to make goals for the New Year! This week we are going to set one or more challenging goals that will enhance your life satisfaction and overall health.

"SCAMPI" is a great guideline for setting specific and measurable goals.  Each letter in "SCAMPI" stands for a word and description that can help you in your goal setting.  Studies have proven that the most effective way to achieve something that you desire is through setting a goal and writing it down.   

Specific – Studies show that people who set specific, challenging goals perform better than those with easy goals, no goals, or who simply try to “do their best.”
Challenging – People who set challenging goals tend to accomplish more than those setting more modest goals, as it inspires more effort and builds more confidence when the goals are accomplished.
Approach – Goals should focus on desirable ends to move toward, not negative things to avoid. People with avoidance goals are often less happy, healthy, and motivated than others.
Measurable – Measuring progress toward goals allows people to determine whether their strategies are working. Measurable goals also encourage steady progress by reducing the tendency to treat success as all-or-nothing (which leaves people vulnerable to letting minor setbacks snowball into relapses).
Proximal – Supplementing a long-term vision with near-term, proximal goals leads to better performance, as well as a heightened sense of confidence, determination, and happiness. Think “small steps.”
Inspirational – Goals should be consistent with a person’s own ideals and ambitions, as well as personally meaningful. People strive toward inspirational goals with greater interest and confidence, leading to enhanced performance, persistence, creativity, and self-esteem.

Week Six Challenge:
Make one or more goals this week for the New Year that you would like to achieve and hold as a priority.  Follow the "SCAMPI" guidelines, and create a goal that will help you achieve a healthier lifestyle in 2010.  This goal is your choice, and can be anything from running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K on May 8, 2010, to meditating for 20 minutes, two times a week during the month of January.  Check off on your Tracking Sheet the day that you set your goal, and that will count for the Week Six Challenge.
Watch the videos below on Goal Setting!

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