7 Health Goals Everyone Should Set (Part I)

Goal is a desired result a person or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. As you set goal for your organization and for yourself, it is necessary to add health goal to it.  A healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways to keep yourself, environment and people around you away from different kinds of diseases and illnesses. Do you know that one of the key strategies to protect yourself from heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure is a healthy living lifestyle?

Therefore, these goals must be added to your goals this year

Increase water in-take – water is the single most concentrated element in the human body. Even small decrease in proper hydration levels can have a significant impact on your overall health. Individual requires different amount of water in-take daily, it depends on your body system, environments and tasks one is engaged in daily. It has been suggested that a man should take minimum of 3litres while a woman should take 2.2litres a day. This may form a baseline for water consumption but you can take more than this depending on you, do not replace water with beverage drinks or soft drinks. 

Rest – rest has been described as total absent from any activity. It enables you to be refreshed and helps you to work at optimal level. Denying yourself due rest make you to work-out your strength and body. Take appropriate step to help your body by giving adequate attention to it when it needs rest.  The quality of your rest directly affect the quality of your waking life, which include your mental alertness, productivity , emotional balance , creativity, physical vitality and your weight

Exercise – exercise is one of the ingredients that keep our body in shape but most of us skipped it by giving excuse. Do not form the habit of sticking to a particular exercise; this year try out a new activity .this will help you to overcome boredom in performing your exercise. Be creative about the exercise you do. Different kinds of new activity will help in exercising your different parts of your body and muscle. Try to create minimum of 15minutes a day or 2hours a week.