Developing a Personal Health and Wellness Plan

Personal Health Wellness Plan During the past semester, I have learned about me, my habits and my health. I intend to make changes in my routine to incorporate exercise and other healthy habits. I have already made changes to my life in recent years. However; after taking the Tactics to Coping with Stress Inventory (Weitan et al., 2009) Appendix A, I decided to change some of my existing coping strategies into more productive ones. I realized, after taking the Beliefs Inventory (Davis et al., 2008) Appendix B, that I had room for improvement in my personal beliefs and I am a perfectionist.

Exercise

Presently, I exercise but I am not consistent. I attended water aerobics for about 3 months last year. Unfortunately, I found the class in July

Granted, I have changed had I scored this inventory 5 or 10 years ago my results would have been worse. Despite my changes I am still a perfectionist, it still bothers me when things don’t go my way but not as much as it did before. I have made changes in my views and perceptions and improved but I still need improvement. In the past, I was always concerned about what others thought, I had a deep need for approval and acceptance. In the past 10 years, I have come to terms with me, accept myself and no longer try to please others. Despite, this I still feel the need for loved and approval from others and scored a 3 in this area. I am still concerned about sticking out in crowds and try to blend in. I will speak my mind and not badger myself for what I say. I am no longer as highly critical of myself as I used to be. In the past 18 months I have taken about 6 psychology courses which have all helped me

However, I must state that in the past few months I have changed in this aspect. I can accept failing at things. I have had several experiences in the past 2 months and my reactions have not been so critical. I try to avoid things I cannot do well, I dropped the Psychology of Learning class this semester. I might have been able to pass the class; however, it but it would have been a C at most and I was stressing horribly over this. I am 55 years old and have been taking classes for the past 3 semesters. I have found it difficult to be an A student like I used to be, but have accepted that my learning is slower now and don’t stress over this anymore. I still get upset when I make mistakes but not as drastically and I calm down within a few seconds. I stalk myself and when I am reacting to situations; I stop and analyze and diffuse my thought process. I still believe that some people do not get what they deserve. But my psychology courses have helped me to understand that people have different ways of thinking which leads them to be the way they are. I also understand the psychological development process and can justify some of the actions of people that do wrong. I have started to be less judgmental. I intend to continue studying and taking more psychology classes to better understand myself; and thereby, understand and be more accepting of