What is a targeted health goal?
Debbie
After completing the first portion of the Personal Health Project, I realized that my goal of getting stronger isn’t exactly specific. I know I improved upon it by changing it to being able to do a pull up, but I still don’t feel as if this is correct. I think the ability to do a pull up is a physiological goal; and I’m not sure that this one weight bearing exercise is really that pertinent to the concept of health. I think that is why I suggested Albert study/intervene/understand my ventures into mindfulness in the next PHP component. As part of a 2 credit class I am taking, I am aiming to practice mindfulness at least 30 minutes a day, increasing to 1 hour per day by the end of the 8 week course. I have struggled to find the time and have been hesitant to practice mindfulness when I am inundated with assignments as stress can be the motivator to get tasks done.
After Albert’s wonderful data visualization for the PHP part I presentation, I think I have lots to learn from him.
We’re still working to figure out what the implications of Albert’s new goal, to decrease the time watching TV, will be. I hope to gather data on how much TV he watches, on what platform, the dates/times I intervene, and the things he wishes he had done with the time he spent watching TV. In a way I am encouraging him to practice mindfulness, in that by having him reflect on the potential better usages of his time he may be more mindful of his time. This data collection will then act as an intervention in itself!
We hope to work with eachother more, through increased contacts via text or face-to-face meetings in order to get a deeper understanding of these PHP targeted health goals.
Debbie and Albert the PHP team to beat
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