Supportive Submission 2: SMART Goal, Barriers and Strategies to Overcome
1)Observe your health habits for a few days. Identify and discuss several behaviors you considered changing.
Next, choose one (and only one) health behavior you would like to attempt to modify over the next four weeks, identify and discuss that as well.
2) Write a S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, Time-bound) goal for the one behavior you would like to change.
Be very specific on the behavior and how you will implement change. Saying, “I will try to exercise more” is not specific. Saying you want to lose 15 lbs., is not a behavior, it is an outcome. The behavior change is/are the thing(s) you do to help you reach that outcome.
Note- A well-written goal should be clear and descriptive enough in one sentence.
You can make lifestyle changes, but for the purpose of goal setting, there has to be an end date to establish whether or not success was met or whether the goal needs to be modified.
3) List at least two distinct barriers that you might encounter and describe your specific plan for overcoming those barriers.
