How to set and achieve health goals

Setting goals is linked to self-confidence, motivation and autonomy.

Harvard research documents that 83% of the population of the United States do not have goals.

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Does the organization you work for have goals?
Do you have personal goals?

What about health goals?

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Our health is not happening to us. Our health is a result of every day lifestyle choices and habits.

We can choose to own these habits. We can get to work, we can build. Just as we’re already doing in other areas of our life, whether that be financial goals or learning goals.

Effort —> results
Results —> confidence
Confidence —> desire to continue

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“To pursue what most people call a goal involves doing something different than what has been done before.”

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Previously I wrote about the 5 pillars of health. Health is nutrition, sleep, movement, connection, stress reduction.

Here’s how you can get started.

Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today. We didn’t have chronic illness prevention information 30 years ago. We have it now.

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