When a person looks at their overall health they must take into consideration three areas, physical, spiritual, and psychological. These three make up the whole. For myself currently in my life if I were to rate these areas from one to ten they would look as such:
Physical - 6
Spiritual - 7
Psychological - 7
For the physical aspect of my well-being I feel that this number represents where I am at currently. I am not really finding time to exercise yet I am still trying to play on a tennis league during the weekend and I always do things like walk the stairs at work and park further out to walk. For these reasons I feel that I sit at a six. A goal for me would to start going back to the gym. I pay for a membership yet have not been to the gym in over 2 months. I would want to try and go Saturday and one other day during the week. Combining this with tennis on Friday and Sunday I am now exercising 4 days a week.
For the spiritual aspect of my well-being I have not been taking the time out each day and pray and read my Bible like I used to do. I also am not currently a member of a church and this is missing and something that I want to change. I plan on making one of my goals to find a new home church that I can start to attend and be able to fellowship with other Christians.
For the psychological aspect of my well-being I feel that this number represents where I am at currently. I have all my life struggled with my weight and this is something that as I get older weighs more heavily than in the past. It stems from the fact that I have been able to lose weight yet have not been able to keep it off. I currently weigh in at 250 pounds and even though this is not super heavy, I am a personal trainer and the fact that I let myself be persuaded to not eat the most healthy foods and to limit my exercising by others makes me feel that I am not fully leading by example. It is getting harder to believe that I can make a long-lasting change. One thing that I can do that may help to start to keep a jounal of my actions and feelings in relation to how I approach food and see if this helps me to build more consistency in watching the calories that I intake.
Jonathan.
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your honesty. I think it can be hard to "score" ourselfs and really think about where we are and where we want to be. I think you have good reasons to have the scores that you do. I also think you have good ideas to be able to bring your numbers up to where you would like them to be. I think it is good that you keep striving to acheive your goals. I am happy for you that you have almost acheived your BA. congratulations! :)
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