Explain how setting goals can impact all areas of health in a positive way.

1. Clear Goals Help Set Our Purpose

Being too vague about our health goals can lead us to give up easily. Telling yourself ‘I’m going to start walking’ isn’t enough but making it clear and specific like ‘I’m going to walk 10,000 steps each day for the next two weeks’ will give you an incentive to keep up the practice.

2. Utilises Our Time Efficiently

By setting a clear goal, it makes it easier to fit the activity into our every day life. If you’re going to walk 10,000 steps a day then you need to plan when you can ideally achieve it. By having a clear goal, you are more focused and forced to consider how you will incorporate this in each day, for example, parking the car further away from work, taking the stairs instead of the elevator or planning for a walk after dinner in the evening.

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3. Clear Goals Equals Faster Results

Time frames are created more easily when we set clear goals which results in consistency. Consistency is the key to achieving any goal in our life because it means we get faster results and that satisfies our impatient tendencies. By setting clear goals and time frames, our efforts become more focused and therefore more likely to stay on the path to successfully reaching our goals.

4. Allows Us To Keep Track Of Our Progress

Tracking progress is essential for reaching our health goals. Whether we are keeping track using an app or crossing off each day with good old pen and paper, it helps us see how well we are doing and how far we’ve come. This in itself creates incentive and a sense of achievement that can only be possible with clear set goals. By setting clear goals we are laying down the path we need to follow which will make it much easier with each step. A hundred miles can only be achieved with each individual step and it’s these steps that we need to focus on rather than the end goal.

5. Helps Us Achieve A Positive Mindset

By having a clear goal, we have something to strive for and, in turn, this helps us to feel more optimistic because having clear goals causes us to feel less stressed and lessens the feelings of failure we put on ourselves. Having a clear focus allows us to feel like we have control over our lives and creates a positive mindset that’s crucial for achieving our goals.