Step 3: Create Your Personal Wellness Action Plan
Next, you are guided to create a Personal Wellness Action Plan consisting of 1-5 simple action steps that may be drawn from your responses to the assessment. The action steps are created using a philosophy of small steps for continuous improvement that lead to sustainable lifestyle change.
You will be presented with a list of the wellness statements that you responded with "Strongly desire a higher score." These are the areas of your life you are most likely highly motivated to change and hold the greatest potential for personal growth. If this list is small, it will be supplemented by a list of statements you answered with "Moderately desire higher score." The statements are arranged according to the 12 dimensions of wellness for easier comprehension and each statement is linked to its corresponding wellness commentary.
Select a few key statements that will help you focus on what is most important to you and begin the process of creating your wellness action steps.
Creating Your Action Steps
The most helpful action steps are simple, specific, doable actions that you can perform with the highest likelihood of success. Small, incremental steps will allow you to create a track record of positive success and build your confidence in creating lifestyle change. We recommend that you create at least one and no more than 5 action steps. We have discovered that it is difficult to effectively focus on more than a few steps at a time.
There is a short online tutorial, "Tips for Creating Effective Action Steps" that can be very helpful in this process.
Email Reminders
You can choose to receive your completed Personal Wellness Plan as a regular email reminder (daily, specific days of the week, or weekly). You can choose the frequency of your email reminders (or choose not to receive any reminders). You can change the frequency at a later date by clicking on the Wellness Plan button at the bottom of My Wellness Homepage and then clicking on the Add/Change Link under "Email Options."
Email reminders serve to keep you engaged in the wellness process, accountable to the commitments you have made to yourself in your Wellness Action Plan, and motivated to improve your overall functioning and wellbeing. See the example of an email reminder below.
The email reminders contain a link to My Wellness Journal, the Self-Study Center, the 12 Wellness Resource Centers, and a full-page wellness wheel, as well as a link to edit your Personal Wellness Action Plan and a link to the Wellness Inventory login page. View a sample email reminder below.
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