Goals

Working For A Healthy Life

The goal I would live to achieve is to develop healthier habits and lifestyle. However there are three obstacles that have the tendency to prevent me from achieving my goal of being healthier. The three obstacles that I face are my coworkers, my daily schedule, and my current unhealthy lifestyle and body condition.

My co-workers currently act as an obstacle because of the amount of time I spend with them as well as their own unhealthy habits. One habit that I have picked up from my co-workers is the excessive drinking of caffeine. Since the end of middle school, around 2006, I have been drinking one cup of coffee in the morning regularly. At my workplace we deal with a lot of customers and have decent length shifts leading us to get tired by the afternoon. To wake ourselves up and to be more focused we drink coffee in the afternoon/. This has aided in developing the habit of drinking two to three cups of coffee daily. By the end of the week I may drink from twelve to twenty cups of coffee.

Another obstacle to me developing healthier habits is my current daily schedule. At the moment when I am not in class or anything academic related, such as studying, I am doing another task. These tasks include my job in which I work part- time or doing household chores. My part-time job unfortunately does not have short shifts. Each shift is eight or ten hours long depending on the day. After getting off of work I have household chores to attend to such as cleaning and laundry. Not only do I have work to do in the house but I also have academic work to attend to.

A third obstacle I am facing at the moment is my own current health. Unfortunately I am not in good shape. Whenever I participate in running due to my current health I do not make it very far such as making a mile and a half run in 20 minutes in a physical education run when others make it mostly between 10 – 15 minutes. There is also an issue with my endurance due to several reasons....