Quarterly Check Up on Your Wellness
With Q1 behind us, you’re likely looking at how your business and employees are tracking with the goals you’ve set. It’s also a great time to check in on your wellness goals. Are you seeing the positive changes you want from making better decisions about food, exercise and stress reduction?
If not, today’s a great day to refocus on the transformation you want to see in your health and wellness. Here are my 3 tips for a quarterly wellness review.
1. Review it. Are your goals SMART? Those familiar with the SMART goal-setting concept know that goals have to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time bound. If you are not seeing results, try re-tooling the goals first to be more attainable and time bound. Small, incremental successes lead to big returns in the long run. Instead of saying “I’m going to lose 50 lbs,” reframe the goal to be more attainable and time bound…”I will focus on improving my diet and exercising 5 days a week to lose 4-5 lbs. a month.” A weekly or monthly target is not as overwhelming. Plus, this goal provides specific methods for achieving the goal – diet and exercise — and it’s relevant to what you want to accomplish by the end of the year.
2. Announce it. Well, maybe not in a press release or on your company’s web site but tell someone. Your business partner, boss, or colleagues working toward similar goals. You are at work more often than not so find a coworker you can trust to keep you accountable – especially when there are cookies or birthday cake in the breakroom (you know that struggle is REAL). If you’re not ready to shout it from the podium at your next staff meeting, find an online accountability/support group (here’s a link to mine…https://www.facebook.com/groups/RoadWarriorFitClub/) where like-minded people from all over the country and world are pursuing the same goals.
3. Track it. You probably have a report for every metric in your business. Successful business owners are tracking their business health on the regular, and should be doing the same with their own health. You don’t need a fancy fitness gadget. A pen and paper, your phone notes app, or one of the many free fitness/diet tracking apps will work just fine. You will not be successful with your wellness goals long term if you are not conscious of what you are eating and how often you are exercising. You may lose some weight or finish a 5k in the short term, but sustained results come from tracking your progress DAILY.
So, as you get ready to run some diagnostics on your business, put it on your calendar to do the same with your health and wellness goals. In fact, put it on your calendar for every quarter…right now (seriously, go write it down now).
Sales, market share and cash flow don’t just happen without careful planning, tracking and accountability. Neither does your health. Treat your wellness like your business and I promise both will perform better. Here’s a great article on other “healthy habits” of successful CEOs and entrepreneurs.
My parting advice on this..don’t go it alone. I’m sure you surround yourself with smart people to advance your business. Do the same with a health by finding wellness coach and accountability partner. Wellness coaches encourage you, help you plan your workouts and meals, and most importantly, keep you on track. I’ve been there, a busy corporate roadwarrior who figured out how to balance work and wellness to be the best possible professional I could be. Want to learn more about me and how I can help, check out my website and feel free to message me with questions.
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