1. Making a Positive Health Change Day’s Objectives: Setting goals to change a behavior. Question of the day? Identify what information is needed when trying to write or set a goal? What might be the steps you do to setting a goal? By the end of class: Use goal-setting skills to change a health behavior. Use self-management skills to adjust behaviors to reach a health goal.

2. What does being successful mean?

3. From Decisions to Goals Why Are Goals Important? Goal make you feel good about yourself. Goal also build your self-esteem. What Is Self-esteem?: Self-esteem refers to how you feel about yourself as a person and how much you value yourself.

4. Goals: If you could become anything or accomplish something what would it be? List the following things that you are doing now to reach this goal.

5. Having Success An Action Plan: An action plan is a map that outlines the steps for reaching your goal. 1- A action plan clearly states your goal. 2- Outlines things that you need to accomplish to reach your goal. Lists the resources you need to reach your goal. 3- Has a timeline to reach your goal. 4- Has a tool of measurement of how well your progress is going. How successful have you been towards meeting your goal.

6. Setbacks What is a setback? A setback is something that goes wrong. However a setback can also be a learning opportunity. Having persistence- The key to reaching a goal is persistence. Persistence is the commitment to keep working towards your goal even when things happen to make you want to quick.

7. Tracking Your Progress What is one way you can track your progress in reaching your goal? A Journal A Calendar Make a chart What does it mean to assess your progress? To assess your progress is to measure your short-term achievement towards a long- term goal.

9. Lets Write A Goal:

10. Steps for creating a goal. Set Your Goal. Establish a Plan Consider Barriers Suggest Solutions Identify a Reward Set a timeline for your goal Evaluate Your Progress

11. Steps for creating a goal. (Set your Goal) I will ride my bike 45 minutes, two times a week for one month. Establishing a plan: I will ride on Wednesday and Sunday. I want to ride my bike between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. Consider barriers: Going to the golf course Going out to dinner late with my wife Playing Tiger Woods Golf

12. Steps for creating a goal. Suggested Solution: Golf on Friday, Sat, and Sun. Eat dinner between 5:00pm and 6:00pm Ask my wife to hide my Xbox until I go run Identify a reward: I will treat myself with ice cream at Cold Stone

13. Steps for creating a goal. Evaluate your progress: Develop a fitness journal that allows me to record my weekly rides. Sunday Completed MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday

14. My goal Worksheet: 1:What is my goal? I want to keep my body hydrated by drinking more water. My goal is to drink 64 ounces of water each day. 2:Steps I need to achieve my goal. (What do you need/Make a plan)? Tonight I will make sure I have a water bottle that I will be able to take to school and have with me where ever I go. I will drink 16 ounces with breakfast and 16 ounces at lunch. After School I want to be able to drink 16 ounces berfore dinner and 16 more at dinner. Finally, I will try to get 16 ounces down before I go to bed. I will go to bed at 10:00pm. 3:Timeline for my goal: One Week.____________________________________________________ 4: Things that might prevent me from being successful: My friends wanting to hangout/ Homework/TV._____________________________________________________________ 5:How will I track my goal? I will keep track of my progress by using a calendar.____ Sunday Completed MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday