Health and Wellness Skills for a Healthy Life

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Health and WellnessSkills for a Healthy Life

• Chapter 2 Section 4
• Setting Healthy Goals
• Pages 38-42

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ObjectivesBy the end of this lesson, students
will have been able to do the following

• Differentiate between short-term goals and
  long-term goals.
• Describe six suggestions for setting goals.
• Develop an action plan to achieve a personal goal.

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Key Terms

• Goal
• Something that you work toward and hope to
  achieve
• Action plan
• A set of directions that will help you reach your
  goal

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Bell ringer Activity

• Write down three goals you hope to accomplish
  within the next month, and three goals you hope
  to accomplish within the next 10 years.

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Motivation

• Brainstorm some goals that teens might have.
• Determinethe long-term goals and short-term
  goals.

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Goal

• A goal is something that you work toward and hope
  to achieve.
• Short-term goal
• Goals that can be achieved
• quicklyin days and weeks.
• Long-term goal
• Goals that take months or years to achieve.

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Suggestions for Setting Goals

• 1. Safe
• 2. Satisfying
• 3. Sensible
• 4. Similar
• 5. Specific
• 6. Supported

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Make an Action Plan

• Action plan
• A set of directions that will help you reach a
  goal.
• Rewards
• Suggestions that will make reaching your goal
  easier.
• Influences
• Know what influences can hurt you and what
  influences can help you when working on your goal
• Tracking Your Progress
• Track the progress you make towards reaching your
  goal

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Closure

• Why is it important to track your progress at
  achieving a goal?
• Explain what might happen if a goal is not
  specific.

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Works Cited

• Images. Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from
  http//www.images.google.com
• Friedman, D. P., Stine, C.C., and Whalen, S.
  (2004). Lifetime Health. Austin, Texas Holt,
  Rinehart, and Winston.