Create Your Wellness Plan: Where to Start?
Making the decision to create a personalised wellness plan requires reflection, determination and courage. Take a systematic approach, be organised, take small steps, make the change.
Here is a list of strategies to consider when you are creating your personalised wellness plan.
Use your Executive Functioning Strategies
Make a list and prioritise it
From your list choose 1 or 2 things to focus on
Start small making little changes
Find a class to learn about your new change
Read an article about your new change
Use your Calendar
Add it to your routine
Make it a habit
Do it daily until it is engrained
Do one thing different
Excellent strategy to get started
Helps to build change
Baby steps are important. Keep moving forward one small step at a time
Important thoughts to keep in mind:
Þ Take small steps – it is most important that you keep moving forward
Þ Use your calendar, make lists, be organised about enacting this change
Þ Prioritise – don’t try to do everything at once
Þ Use your network. Who will be your support?
Þ Practice self-compassion. Expect to make mistakes, you won’t get it perfect the first time around, keep coming back to the change you want to make
Þ When you plan your week, plan time to focus on your wellness plan
Þ Build this new practise into your routine.
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