Health and Happiness :: Happiness Essays

During the fall semester of 2004 I participated in a program to remediate my habits of healthy living. I set goals for myself in four different areas, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, neighborly or Family Time, Play/Laugh/Cr carry offe and, Spiritual development. During the three months of September, October and November I experienced some challenges and some successes. In the area of exercise my counterbalance goal was to play soccer every day and try and advert weights at the gym. This started out really easy because I had soccer nonchalant and lifted weights on a consistent basis. After the season was everywhere I have found that it has become more difficult to be discipline about running and lifting weights due to trying to improve my grades from the privation of effort during soccer season. The next area I would like to verbalize about is the nutrition area. I have found this category to be one of the most consistent areas to persevere going. It is non very heavy(p) to eat something healthy with every meal. But, I have found now that I have more time on my hands it is easier to eat more junk food than I would like to because I rightful(prenominal) eat what ever looks commodity to me at the time. I do not think about what I am eating like I did at the beginning of the semester.Third is the Sleeping category which was the easiest for me to keep up with. I am one of those people that if I do not consume enough sleep the night before it is hard for me to responsibility that next day. So, I have tried to get a tokenish of seven hours of sleep every night. It does not seem like a hard task but when you are in school, playing a sport and having a relationship with a girl it is hard to get seven hours of sleep every night. I figured out how to keep on a consistent basis.The social/family time was a good one to have. It helped me talk to my parents on a more consistent basis. By talking to them it made me feel like we had a good true relationship with them. There were also times when I found myself not talking to them because I was to bust with either school soccer or my girlfriend. But, for the most part I felt this was beneficial for my relationship with my parents.